GPROF

PPS Announces TRMM TMI L2-L3 GPROF V05A Reprocessed Data -Available Thursday April 19, 2018

PPS will start to process the TRMM TMI level 2 and level 3 GPROF products, the core member of the TRMM era GPROF products family, on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Similar to the early released TRMM era AMSRE, AMSUB, SSMI, MHS, SSMIS, AMSR2 and ATMS level 2 and level 3 products, all level 2 and level 3 GPROF products will be produced as GPM version V05, all products are in HDF5 format, all product names will use the GPM naming convention and the produced data will appear both in STORM: https://storm.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/storm/ and on "arthurhou": ftp://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ after these are

TRMM Level 2-Level 3 GPROF Processing Announcement

With the completion of the TRMM era GPM constellation version 8 level 1 processing, PPS will start to process the TRMM era MHS, SSMIS, AMSR2 and ATMS version 8 level 2 and level 3 GPROF products on Monday October 16, 2017. Similar to the TRMM version 8 level 1 constellation products, all level 2 and level 3 GPROF products will be produced as GPM version V05, all products are in HDF5 format, all product names will use the GPM file naming convention: https://pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/Documents/FileNamingConventionForPrecipitatio… and the produced data will appear both in STORM

PPS Releases Level 2-Level 3 GPROF MHS Version 04A Data

Level 2 and Level 3 GPROG MHS Version V04A products, starting from February 01, 2014 are in production and will be available to our registered users at: ftp://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ This data can also be ordered through PPS's STORM https://storm-pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/storm/ To register with PPS to obtain data, please visit: https://registration.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/registration/ The DataType designation for these products are as follows: 2AGPROFMETOPAMHS 2AGPROFMETOPBMHS 2AGPROFNOAA18MHS 2AGPROFNOAA19MHS 3GPROFMETOPAMHS_DAY 3GPROFMETOPBMHS_DAY 3GPROFNOAA18MHS_DAY 3GPROFNOAA19MHS_DAY

New Products: L2 and L3 GPROF for the NPP ATMS

Level 2 and Level 3 GPROF products for the NPP ATMS, starting from data date 2014-03-01 are in production and will be available to our registered users at: ftp://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ These products can also be ordered through PPS's STORM https://storm-pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/storm/ To register please visit: http://registration.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/registration/ The DataType designation for these products include: 2AGPROFNPPATMS 3GPROFNPPATMS 3GPROFNPPATMS_DAY and they are under the ftp directory: ftp://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/gpmdata/yyyy/mm/dd/gprof GPM GPROF (Level 2) Algorithm

V04 Processing Processing of GMI GPROF Retrievals Begins

V04 Processing processing of GMI GPROF retrievals began at 11:20 UTC, May 2. Please note the the GPM Near-realtime (NRT) subsystem began to run the V04A GPROF precipitation retrieval effective 11:20UTC, May 2, 2016. Information about changes in the version can be found in the document GMI.V4.Release.Notes_05.01.2016.pdf that is located in directory /NRTPUB/V4ReleaseInfo The biggest change in the retrieval is the use of an a-priori database constructed from Combined and KU actual mission retrievals rather than the pre-launch composite databases. Partner radiometer (both conincally scanning and