Spatial rainfall or precipitation data
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:57 PM, luca candeloro
<luca.candeloro at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everybody, I'm looking for satellite data about rainfall or precipitation... I think * ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/s4pa/TRMM_L3/TRMM_3B42_daily/2010/001/3B42_daily.2010.01.02.6.bin * could be what I'm looking for (as it's accessible via ftp, is 0.25? spatial resolution and daily temporal resolution), but I can't get correct values from this binary file (I read the documentation about data structure, it speaks about two-byte integer, but I can't understand how to get values). Does anyone know how to read this kind of file into R or an alternative way of having spatial data about precipitation?
you could try the IRI Data Library: http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ the interface is a bit clunky but persevere. There's definitely rainfall data in there over space and time, but it does concentrate on Africa and tropical areas for backing up disease research. Barry