[R-sig-Geo] Spatial rainfall or precipitation data

[Barry Rowlingson]

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

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