New Users' Guide to the PDISC Site

Data

• How do I know what precipitation data you have?
• How do I get them?
• Is there documentation to help me read the data?
• I need a subset/plot/ascii output
• Can I get help?

Sources

PDISC archives precipitation data products from three TRMM instruments and several data collections comprising combined data from multiple sources.

• The instruments; what kind of data they collect

Distribution Methods

The DISC now distributes all its data holdings via FTP.Tthe Datapool interface helps you navigate the larger data sets such as TRMM, with a variety of data products from several instruments.For smaller data sets, there is direct FTP access from each data document.