GHRC DAAC has published the TRMM Cyclone Precipitation Feature (TCPF) Database - Level 1, providing TRMM-based tropical cyclone data in a common framework for hurricane science research. This dataset aggregates observations from each of the TRMM instruments for each satellite orbit that was coincident with a tropical cyclone in any of the six TC-prone ocean basins. These swath data are co-located and subsetted to a 20-degree longitude by 20-degree latitude bounding box centered on the tropical storm, which is typically large enough to observe the various sizes of TCs and their immediate environments. The TCPF Level 1 dataset was created by researchers at Florida International University (FIU) and the University of Utah (UU) from the UU TRMM Precipitation Feature database. The TCPF database is built by extracting those precipitation features that are identified as tropical cyclones (TC) using the TC best-track data provided by National Hurricane Center or the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
GHRC has acquired the Level 1 Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Feature (TCPF) Database, which provides TRMM-based tropical cyclone swath data. The TCPF Level 1 dataset marks the shift in GHRC's direction towards the new focus of hazardous weather.
