Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
2C-PRECIP-COLUMN (CloudSat data product)
datasetreference / derived productIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRA; NASA
Description
CloudSat 2C-PRECIP-COLUMN product determining the presence and intensity of surface precipitation from CloudSat Profiling Radar observations, with path-integrated attenuation and near-surface reflectivity; release P1_R05 in NetCDF.
Official page
https://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/data-products/2c-precip-column
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- Access summary
- download
- Download or access
- CloudSat products will remain available via this website through September 27th, 2026, after which they can be obtained from NASA Earthdata Cloud in NetCDF format.
Contact
- Contact
- (no name)
Details
- Keywords
- surface precipitation, precipitation intensity, path-integrated attenuation, spaceborne radar, cloudsat
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Associated entity
- CloudSat Data Processing Center (DPC), CIRA
- Identifier
- 2C-PRECIP-COLUMN P1_R05
- Status
- Current Epoch: Epoch 10
- Deployment platform
- CloudSat (94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, CPR)
- Specifications
- Algorithm Specifications table: 6 geolocation fields + 36 data fields (type, dimensions, units, valid range, missing value, factor, offset per field)