STAR Satellite Rainfall Estimates
Hydro-Estimator - South America
Automatic Satellite-Derived Precipitation Estimates
This home page provides real time rainfall rate estimates over South America based on cloud top temperature measurements from the GOES-East satellite 10.7 micron channel. The estimates are not available when GOES-East is in rapid scan mode (only the Northern Hemisphere is observed). This The estimates may be too high for cold cloud tops and too low for warm cloud tops. The use of this product is at the discretion of the user. For more details see this technique description.
The model has been updated (January 2000) to include a moisture correction based on the NCEP GFS model, and to reduce the overestimates which occur in wide-spread convective regimes.
| Current & Archived Images |
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| 1-hour accumulation updated every 15 minutes |
| 3-hour accumulation updated at the top of every hour |
| 6-lour accumulation updated at the top of every hour |
| 24-hour accumulation updated daily at 1200 UTC |
| Current & Archived Images | 1-Hour Accum. Maps | 3-Hour Accum. Maps |
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| Brazil: Northeast | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Brazil: Southeast | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Brazil: Sao Paulo | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Brazil: Center West | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Brazil: North | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Brazil: South And Uruguay | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Argentina and Chile | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Bolivia and Paraguay | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Peru | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
| Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela | 1-Hour Accum. Images | 3-Hour Accum. Images |
Notice:
Due to the discontinuation of browser support for ftp protocol, the data links below are now offered via https. Command line access via ftp will continue for the time being at the ftp version of these file locations. Command line access to the https data folders can be performed via WGET or CURL.
| GrADS Archive |
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| 1-Hour Data |
| 3-Hour Data |
| 6-Hour Data |
| 24-Hour Data |