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The September 18-20 2020 Medicane Ianos Impact on Greece Phase I Reconnaissance Report

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Publication Year
Authors
Zekkos, D., G. Zalachoris, A. E. Alvertos et al.
Journal
Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Report
Volume
GEER-068
DOI
10.18118/G6MT1T
Publication URL
https://geerassociation.org/administrator/components/com_geer_reports/geerfiles/Medicane%20Ianos%20GEER%20Report.pdf
Mission Affiliation
Major Category
Date Last Updated
June 3rd, 2022
Document Description

The L3GPROF algorithm provides monthly and daily mean precipitation and related retrieved parameters from the Level 2 GPROF precipitation profiling algorithm for the GPM core and constellation satellites.


Each L3GPROF product contains global 0.25o x 0.25o gridded monthly/daily unconditional means and pixel counts. Monthly product filenames start with 3A-MO or 3A-CLIM-MO, and daily product filenames start with 3A-DAY or 3A-CLIM-DAY.

Date Last Updated
June 3rd, 2022
Document Description

This Level 3 GPROF Version 07 release involves the following changes from the previous
(Version 05) release:

1. Product format change:
Added dimension variables such as lat, lon, layer, lat_bnds, lon_bnds, layer_bnds. Removed
cloudIce variable but added graupel and latentHeating variables.
2. Total number of precipitation pixels (npixPrecipitation):
In Version 05, pixels with pixelStatus=0 and surfacePrecipitation > 0 are counted as
precipitation pixels. In Version 07, pixels with pixelStatus=0, surfacePrecipitation > 0 and