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NOAA Global Hydro Estimator (GHE)

NOAA Global Hydro Estimator (GHE)

This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.

Description

Global Hydro-Estimator provides a global mosaic imagery of rainfall estimates from multi-geostationary satellites, which currently includes GOES-16, GOES-15, Meteosat-8, Meteosat-11 and Himawari-8. The GHE products include: Instantaneous rain rate, 1 hour, 3 hour, 6 hour, 24 hour and also multi-day rainfall accumulation.

License

NOAA data disseminated through NODD is made available under the [Creative Commons 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0) license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/?ref=chooser-v1\ ), which is well-known and internationally recognized. There are no restrictions on the use of the data. The data are open to the public and can be used as desired. NOAA has adopted the Creative Commons license to ensure maximum use of our data, to spur and encourage exploration and innovation throughout the industry. This license is applicable to each of the NOAA datasets made available by NODD. NOAA requests attribution for the use or dissemination of unaltered NOAA data. However, it is not permissible to state or imply endorsement by or affiliation with NOAA. If you modify NOAA data, you may not state or imply that it is original, unaltered NOAA data.

How to cite

NOAA Global Hydro Estimator (GHE) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-ghe .

Update frequency
15 minute-instantaneous
Support information

Managed by: NOAA 

Contact: For questions regarding product content or quality, visit https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/ghe/index.html . For any questions regarding data delivery or any general questions regarding the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program, email the NODD Team at nodd@noaa.gov. We also seek to identify case studies on how NOAA data is being used and will be featuring those stories in joint publications and in upcoming events. If you are interested in seeing your story highlighted, please share it with the NODD team by emailing nodd@noaa.gov

General AWS Data Exchange support

Resources on AWS

Description

Project data files

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::noaa-ghe-pds
AWS Region
us-east-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-ghe-pds/
Description

New data notifications for GHE, only Lambda and SQS protocols allowed

Resource type
SNS Topic
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123901341784:NewGHEObject
AWS Region
us-east-1

Usage examples