{"id":11022,"date":"2017-05-07T22:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11022"},"modified":"2017-05-07T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T02:46:17","slug":"rainsphere-a-new-tool-for-exploring-trends-in-satellite-precipitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-a-new-tool-for-exploring-trends-in-satellite-precipitation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;RainSphere&#8221;&#8211;A new tool for exploring trends in satellite precipitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new mapping tool that allows you to look at historical and projected trends in precipitation from satellite and ground-based data is now available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rainsphere.eng.uci.edu\/\">https:\/\/rainsphere.eng.uci.edu\/<\/a>. \u00a0According to a description of the tool in the <em>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/full\/10.1175\/BAMS-D-16-0036.1\">link<\/a>), CHRS RainSphere was designed as an educational tool that allows users to quickly and easily conduct analyses of historical and future precipitation at spatial scales that range from highly local to global and at daily, monthly, or annual time scales. I&#8217;ve played around with it and it looks like it could be very useful for finding trends in precipitation. \u00a0There is a YouTube video tutorial on it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eI2-f88iGlY&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eI2-f88iGlY&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a>\u00a0but it also seems fairly intuitive to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11023\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-screenshot-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-screenshot-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-screenshot-768x332.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-screenshot.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/rainsphere-screenshot-319x138.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mapping tool that allows you to look at historical and projected trends in precipitation from satellite and ground-based data is now available at\u00a0https:\/\/rainsphere.eng.uci.edu\/. \u00a0According to a description of the tool in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (link), CHRS RainSphere was designed as an educational tool that allows users to quickly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11024,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions\/11024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}