TRMM V6 Reprocessing Trending Results

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TSDIS started reprocessing all TRMM data as of  April 1, 2004 with the V6 algorithms. The earliest data date is Dec. 8, 1997, however not all instruments were operational at that time. TSDIS performs reprocessing at an accelerated rate, sometimes producing 15 data days per day. 

The trending software is run on each orbit of data producing ASCII files that contain the sum, sum of squares and count information of each variable along with other bookeeping information. These trend files are then used to make the various graphs shown below.

The ASCII trend files can be downloaded from the V6 RP Trend Data Files Page

We are still updating the contents of these pages.  Please notify TSDIS Help Desk of any problems you encounter.

Graphs 
Time Series Plots and Histogram
Below are the trending graphs organized by algorithm.

Time series plots display the mean and standard deviation of a variable per day.
The average of the daily means is listed on the x-axis.

Histogram plots  The vertical lines in the graphs denote the means the distributions. The base data for the histograms are the means computed from every orbit in the trend files.  Histograms are presented in terms of  % of data.

 

VIRS: 1B01 Radiances Reflectance

 

TMI: 1B11  Low Res Channel Tb  High Res Channel Tb

TMI: 2A12 Surface Rainfall Rain Detection

 

PR: 1B21 Rain/No Rain Flag Surface Return Power	PR: 2A21 Sigma0 over Ocean Sigma0 over Land Path Attenuation	PR: 2A23 Rain Type Height of Bright Band Storm Height
PR: 2A25  Near Surface Rainfall  Near Surface Corrected Reflectivity  Rainfall at various height levels  Corrected Reflectivity at various height levels

 

Combined: 2B31 Surface Rainfall Rain Detection

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