PROGRESS REPORT

30 April 2018

Jason Pajimola Punay

Student, PhD in Atmospheric Physics

Chian-Yi Liu, Ph.D.

Adviser
Objectives
1. To present the basic method in obtaining/processing GPM imerg rainfall data.
2. To present the possible areas of interest over which GPM and Himawari data
will be extracted.

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Panoply view of GPM Imerg data
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Need to check some features to know the right

orientation of the image.. Rotate 4

Fill-value is -9999.90

Note: I made a mistake by saying that temporal spacing

is not uniform. It is uniform and it is every 30minutes
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SEVERE TROPICAL
STORM MAWAR

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 Setting the boundaries of the areas of
interest
Area of Boundary Boundary Bounding box Number of pixels
Interest (lat, lon) (pixel number)
Lower Upper Lower Upper [x1:x2, y1:y2]
Sumatra-Java (-7.95O, (-2.95O, (820, 2800) (870, 2960) [2800:2960, 820:870] 50 x 160 = 8,000
100.05O) 116.05O)
Philippines (7.05O, (19.05O, (970, 2980) (1090, 3050) [2980:3050, 970:1090] 120 x 70 = 8,400
118.05O) 125.05O)
Taiwan (20.05O, (27.05O, (1100, 2960) (1170, 3050) [2960:3050, 1100:1170] 70 x 90 = 6,300
116.05O) 125.05O)
What do we have and don’t have in hand
We have:
[1] GPM data for 01-30 June, 01-31 July, 01-10 August 2017; Complete 30-minute interval from 0000-0800 UTC; 17 files per day
[2] Himawari 8/9 data for 01-05 June 2017; Complete 30-minute interval from 0000-0800 UTC; 17 files per day
[3] Location of area of interest with corresponding pixel numbers
[4] Codes for processing Himawari 8/9 and GPM data (but not combined)

We don’t have:
[1] The process of reconciling the spatial resolution of Himawari and GPM datasets. Can’t average the Himawari because each pixel’s lat/lon doesn’t
really equals to 2km resolution in a one-to-one (pixel by pixel) comparison with the corresponding Himawari lat/lon dataset.
[2] The process of extracting the corresponding Himawari data collocated with GPM.

What I think I need/difficulties/challenges:

[1] 4-8 GB additional RAM* (currently have 4GB; computer can’t handle the process efficiently; *also for Christin)
[2] External storage of data (needed before full blast data extraction)
[3] Related literature for presenting/analyzing the extracted Himawari & GPM data (currently being handled)
[4] GPM product that categorize kinds of rain to stratiform, convective, etc. ATBD is at hand but can’t find the product.
[5] Explore the data further.
Thank you

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