These products are useful for evaluating the mean climate state, it's interannual and seasonal variations, and the detection of anomalies associated with ENSO and regional climatic variations. Monthly average products are produced for precipitation, cloud liquid water, total precipitable water, snow cover, sea-ice cover, and oceanic surface wind speed. There are essentially two basic types of data products offered here, Daily and Monthly . Each image has grid spacing of one-third degree and spans 1080 columns and 540 rows. Data for the last seven days are available to browse for any of the 7 channel measurements.
Daily products are also now available for browsing.
These include snow cover, rain rate and total precipitable water. Recent daily and monthly products can be found in the recent products page. A list of these products can be found by looking in the daily and monthly 1.0 degree and 2.5 degree products section. Monthly Climate Anomalies indicate a departure from the climate mean. Anomalies are usefiul in monitoring changes in weather.