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• Mar. 30, 2023
  News

  Tackling Extreme Precipitation Events Workshop -Indo-Pacific region-

  The online workshop “Tackling Extreme Precipitation Events Workshop -Indo-Pacific region-” was held jointly by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) from March 1st to 3rd, 2023.
• Mar. 10, 2023
  Homepage

  We have renewed the JAXA GPM websites

  We have renewed the JAXA GPM websites. The wider display is highlighted on the top page of the new websites.
  
• Feb. 28, 2023
  News

  Nine years have passed since the GPM Core Observatory was launched!

  Nine years have passed since the GPM Core Observatory was launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center on February 28, 2014! The GPM Core Observatory continues to observe the global precipitation till now. Taking over the will of TRMM, we hope that the GPM Core Observatory will live longer.
• Sep. 8, 2022
  Maintenance

  Maintenance

  Our Web and ftp system will be unavailable from 00:50(UTC), Sep.12 to 07:20(UTC), Sep.12 due to our facility maintenance.
  We apologize for any inconvenience.
• Jun. 14, 2022
  Homepage

  Release of "JAXA 3D RAINFALL WATCH" website

  "JAXA 3D RAINFALL WATCH" website provides images and videos of three-dimensional rainfall observed by the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), which measures rainfall in three dimensions from space.
• Mar. 18, 2022
  News

  Today's Earth Research and Development Group received The Fifth Space Development and Utilization Grand Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

  Prof. Kei Yoshimura(JAXA/UT), Dr. Wenchao Ma(UT) and Mr. Kosuke Yamamoto(JAXA), who were involved in the development of "Today's Earth," a global terrestrial hydrological simulation system that makes effective use of satellite data including GSMaP, received The Fifth Space Development and Utilization Grand Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
• Feb. 28, 2022
  News

  Eight years have passed since the GPM Core Observatory was launched!

  Eight years have passed since the GPM Core Observatory was launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center on February 28, 2014! The GPM Core Observatory continues to observe the global precipitation till now. Taking over the will of TRMM, we hope that the GPM Core Observatory will live longer.
• Dec. 22, 2021
  News

  Performance improvement in global precipitation data from satellite

  In order to provide more user friendly and high-accuracy precipitation data, JAXA has continuously conducted the researches for improving rainfall estimation algorithm in cooperation with universities and research institutions. We are pleased to announce that following data versions have been upgraded since December 2021.
• Dec. 6, 2021
  Product

  GPM Products (Version 07) Release

  JAXA have started to provide a new version (Version 07) of GPM standard products. The detail information from here.

  The related documents from here

  The GPM V07 products are available from the G-Portal.
• Dec. 1, 2021
  Product

  New GSMaP (v8) is now available

  We start distributing the new GSMaP of algorithm version 8 on December 1, 2021.
  The GSMaP v8 in binary and txt format is distributed as same format as current version, and we add netcdf format for real-time and near-real-time GSMaP of algorithm version 8. The currently distributed GSMaP products of v6 and v7 continue to be provided operationally.

  The Format description from here

  The FAQ from here