TRMM (TMI) monthly climatology

TRMM monthly climatology

TMI instrument flown on Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are compiled into monthly climatologies.
Original monthly gridded data (1/1998-12/2006) were acquired from ssmi.com site and subsequently averaged into monthly climatologies. For more info on the data see the info page for TRMM monthly data.

Variables
SST (°C), 10-meter surface wind speeds (measurements made by the 11 and 37 GHz channels, m/s), atmospheric water vapor (mm), liquid cloud water(mm), and precipitation rates(mm/hour)
ZonalGlobal by 0.25 deg
Meridional40S to 40N by 0.25 deg
Vertical  
TemporalJan Climatology to Dec Climatology by 1 month(s)
Static?yes
Volume132 Mb
ServerDODS & LAS; public
Sourcehttp://www.ssmi.com/tmi/tmi_description.html 
AcquiredMarch 2007
APDRC contactJan Hafner
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