Satellite precipitation estimates for selected locations in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (ver. 3.0, January 2025)
December 22, 2022
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is a sovereign Small Island State in the tropical central North Pacific Ocean. RMI is a nation of more than thirty atolls and islands, most of which are inhabited, dispersed across an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) over 2 million square kilometers. This data release contains files of daily precipitation estimates beginning in 2001 for 23 inhabited sites in the RMI derived from Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG; https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/imerg). The files contain either "Late IMERG" data or "Final IMERG" data and are in millimeter per day. These data were compiled to support a 2022-2023 U.S. Geological Survey project to develop methods to apply Earth Observation to monitor the health of vegetation in the RMI, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
Citation Information
Publication Year | 2022 |
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Title | Satellite precipitation estimates for selected locations in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (ver. 3.0, January 2025) |
DOI | 10.5066/P95ANG3N |
Authors | Gabriel Senay, Stefanie (Contractor) Kagone, Thomas H Cecere, David Helweg, Kurtis Nelson, John B Taylor |
Product Type | Data Release |
Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
USGS Organization | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |
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