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Observations & remote sensing

PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared–Rain Rate (PDIR-Now): A Near-Real-Time, Quasi-Global Satellite Precipitation Dataset

Phu Nguyen, Mohammed Ombadi, Vesta Afzali Gorooh, Eric Jay Shearer, Mojtaba Sadeghi, Soroosh Sorooshian, Kuolin Hsu, David T. Bolvin, Martin F. Ralph

Journal of Hydrometeorology · · NASA

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In one sentence. PDIR-Now provides hourly quasi-global infrared-based precipitation at 0.04° with 15-60 min latency, improving the critical success index to 0.53 from 0.47 over PERSIANN-CCS.

Labels

Topic
Observations & remote sensing
Type
Benchmark or dataset
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Time scale
0–6 h
Domain
Global
Data
Satellite, Station / in-situ
Status
Operational
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/jhm-d-20-0177.1 OpenAlex:W3107195989
Added
2026-10-22

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