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IMERG V08 Transition Schedule

For the Final Run, the V07 record ends in September 2025 because the parent products feeding into the IMERG algorithm (CORRA and GPROF) are being upgraded to V08. If processing were to go beyond September, the Final record would have to use V08 inputs instead of V07 inputs. Since the IMERG V07 code is configured with the expectation of V07 inputs, this would introduce potential discontinuities in the Final record. The IMERG V08 Final Run is planned for release in the summer of 2026, though this timeline assumes that V08 of the parent products behaves within expected bounds. When this release

Natural Cycles in Global Precipitation

IMERG Precipitation Anomaly for Day of Year 1 to 30
Friday, March 27, 2026
In many places, the amount of that rain falls on a particular day or hour is influenced by multiple natural cycles that exist simultaneously on different time scales. One such cycle repeats every 24 hours, and another repeats every year. The global extent of these cycles can be studied using NASA's IMERG precipitation estimates that have been generated for 1998 to the present. Most of Earth's precipitation falls as rain, and the rest falls as snow, hail, or other forms of precipitation. The length of IMERG's data record makes it possible to average out some of the random error and unrelated
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Upcoming GPM Near Real-time Maintenance

On Tuesday, 20 January 2026, NASA's Precipitation Processing System (PPS) will temporarily shutdown the GPM Near Real-time (NRT) system at 18:00 EST (23:00 UTC). This is necessary to complete the move of data from the current high-speed storage system (not currently under maintenance) to the new storage system that is under maintenance. It will take approximately 14 hours to finalize the synchronization of the data from the old storage to the new one. During this 14 hours no new data will be produced or ingested. While user access to the file server (jsimpson.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov and

End of SSMIS data coming to GPM Near Real-time Products

Department of Defense (DOD) FNMOC has announced its intention to shut down the current flow of operational SSMIS data on 30 June 2025. This is much earlier than the earlier announced date of September 2026, and would suspend the use of F16, F17, and F18 SSMIS data in GPM PPS. We are vigorously pursuing alternatives for continuing access to SSMIS data, but it seems likely that there will be an interruption, and perhaps end, to the SSMIS data streams. The lack of these 3 conically scanning radiometers will impact the accuracy of all IMERG products as they will have data from 3 fewer radiometers

Equipment Updates on April 16, 2025 Will Impact Access to GPM NRT Servers

On April 16, 2025, hardware updates on the GPM NRT and SDPS processing and network environment will impact processing and access to the systems and data products. The downtime is estimated at 20 minutes, barring any anomalies. The work is planned during a pre-existing gap in satellite data collection: 2025-04-16 gap --- 15:28:39 to 15:43:39 UTC --- 0:15:00 duration Backup times are: 2025-04-16 gap --- 17:06:04 to 17:25:27 UTC --- 0:19:23 duration 2025-04-16 gap --- 17:50:27 to 18:14:55 UTC --- 0:24:28 duration We appreciate your understanding of this interruption of GPM data.

IMPORTANT: PPS's "arthurhou" GPM Production Data Archive Temporarily Unavailable

On Friday January 31, 2025, PPS detected hardware issues with PPS's Production data archive "arthurhou". Because of reported file length discrepancies, PPS is suspending access to the the 'arthurhou' production data server until they can analyze and fully resolve these issues as soon as possible. All data archiving to 'arthurhou' will be turned off during this unscheduled maintenance period. GPM production data and PPS access systems such as STORM will NOT be available for processing during that time. Please be aware that GPM NRT data file access on 'jsimpson' remains unaffected during this

PPS Announces New Cloudsat/TRMM and Cloudsat/GPM Coincident Data Sets

Thanks to the continuing support and work of Dr. Joe Turk of JPL, PPS has an updated version of the Cloudsat TRMM and GPM coincident datasets. These are now available for retrieval from PPS. Documentation for this V05 dataset is available on the PPS website at the following location: https://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/Documents/CSAT_TRMM_GPM_COIN_ATBD… The dataset was created using the TRMM and GPM V07 products and the current Cloudsat products. The output file format is netcdf4.
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