data sources

NOAA

• Operational Hydro-Estimator Satellite Rainfall Estimates
  • Description: rainfall rate estimates every 15 minutes for CONUS using GEOS and every 30 minutes globally using METEOSAT & MTSAT; includes instantaneous rates and 1-hour, 3-hour, 6-hour, 24-hour and multi-day accumulations
  • AWS netcdf archive (2019-present): NOAA Global Hydro Estimator (GHE) - Registry of Open Data on AWS
  • Azure netcdf archive: NOAA Global Hydro Estimator | AIforEarthDataSets
• [National Blend of Models - MDL - Virtual Lab](https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/mdl/nbm

  NASA

• MERRA-2
  • Description: 1980 - present (1 month lag?); 3-hourly or greater (i.e. monthly)
  • Access: GES DISC (S3 - but can't find bucket?)
  • Example: EarthData Cloud Cookbook - GES DISC - MERRA2
  • Example: Notebook

    Ground

    Citizen Weather Observer Program The number of North American CWOP stations sending data over the past several days is normally more than 7000 stations sending 50,000 to 75,000 observations every hour. The number of world-wide citizen weather stations sending data to CWOP is shown increasing over the past decade. NOAA info: NCEP Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

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