2.3.3. TRMM TMPA

TRMM TMPA 3B42 v7 (hereinafter TMPA) was established by the joint efforts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). TMPA has 0.25◦ (~25 km at the equator) spatial resolution ranging from 50◦ S and 50◦ N bands with 3 hours temporal resolution available from January 1998 to the present. Precipitation estimation is based on the observations in infrared and microwave bands obtained by satellites. Re-analyzed precipitation data from the GPCC-FDD dataset was used to compute these multi-satellite precipitation estimates [57,58]. The complete description of TMPA is provided by reference [19]. The motivation behind the selection of TMPA is the fact that it has been evaluated comprehensively by many studies and is reported for its supremacy in comparison to other datasets [47,59].
