{"id":1204632,"date":"2021-04-29T03:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1204632"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T19:32:33","slug":"precipitation-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/precipitation-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Precipitation Layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World"},"author":9412,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941,22771,23051],"tags":[43101,410642,30401,32981,759932],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-1204632","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-natural-resources","category-water","tag-arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-environment","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-precipitation","tag-rainfall","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Explore precipitation datasets in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Precipitation is the main driver of the water cycle: it waters our crops, it replenishes water in reservoirs, and heavy storms produce floods that affect our communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/#d=2&amp;categories=Environment%3A1111111111\">ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> includes precipitation layers that can be used for environmental analysis, from short-term precipitation forecast to spatially-distributed raster datasets that are updated in near-real time through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/group.html?id=08cdbf1a17d14be2bd4c5b426b9d212c#overview\">Live Feeds<\/a>. 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The IMERG image layer in Living Atlas is a mosaic of monthly precipitation rasters at 0.1 degrees spatial resolution from June 2000 to the present, with a data latency of 2.5 months. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=6c186b1a0b354357a2b169e9e24b5636\">IMERG image layer<\/a> is updated automatically when new data are available every month through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/mapping\/live-feeds-powering-updates-of-arcgis-living-atlas-indicators-of-the-planet\/\">Live Feed<\/a> routine.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1205832,"id":1205832,"title":"IMERG","filename":"IMERG_image.png","filesize":79879,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/precipitation-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world\/imerg_image","alt":"IMERG","author":"9412","description":"","caption":"","name":"imerg_image","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1204632,"date":"2021-04-20 23:25:03","modified":"2021-04-20 23:25:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":699,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","medium-width":456,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","medium_large-width":699,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","large-width":699,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","1536x1536-width":699,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","2048x2048-width":699,"2048x2048-height":400,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","card_image-width":699,"card_image-height":400,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMERG_image.png","wide_image-width":699,"wide_image-height":400}},"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The IMERG layer displays a time-series of monthly precipitation rasters. The time-series values can be queried as any other item in ArcGIS Online, for example by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/python\/\">ArcGIS API for Python<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/rest\/\">ArcGIS REST API<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>WorldClim<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldclim.org\/data\/worldclim21.html\">WorldClim 2.1<\/a> is a dataset of climate variables downscaled to different spatial resolutions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=e6ab693056a9465cbc3b26414f0ddd2c\">WorldClim image layer<\/a> in Living Atlas provides mean monthly precipitation and total annual precipitation for the period between 1970 to 2000 at 2.5 arc minutes (~5 km) spatial resolution.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1205822,"id":1205822,"title":"WorldClim","filename":"WorldClim_image.png","filesize":73574,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/precipitation-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world\/worldclim_image","alt":"WorldClim","author":"9412","description":"","caption":"","name":"worldclim_image","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1204632,"date":"2021-04-20 23:24:25","modified":"2021-04-20 23:24:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":699,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","medium-width":456,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","medium_large-width":699,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","large-width":699,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","1536x1536-width":699,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","2048x2048-width":699,"2048x2048-height":400,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","card_image-width":699,"card_image-height":400,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WorldClim_image.png","wide_image-width":699,"wide_image-height":400}},"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The WorldClim Precipitation layer shows the expected inter-annual precipitation at any given place.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Precipitation items in Living Atlas<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to IMERG and WorldClim, Living Atlas includes <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/#d=2&amp;q=Precipitation\">precipitation layers<\/a> that are useful for different water resources applications. To highlight a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=f9e9283b9c9741d09aad633f68758bf6\">National Weather Service Precipitation Forecast<\/a>: Cumulative precipitation forecast for the next 72 hours in the Contiguous United States.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=d9f5a81ae364451ca62ffab775527ab4\">GLDAS Precipitation<\/a>: Monthly precipitation estimates from the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) from 2000 to current.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Precipitation is a key variable for the study of the environment. Living Atlas includes precipitation datasets for analysis and mapping, from long-term average conditions such as in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=e6ab693056a9465cbc3b26414f0ddd2c\">WorldClim<\/a> to a time-series of monthly precipitation estimates from IMERG.<\/p>\n<h2>More Information<\/h2>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.esri.com\/community\/arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world\">Esri Community<\/a> of experts to get inspired by others or get answers to your questions.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":9412,"user_firstname":"Gonzalo","user_lastname":"Espinoza Davalos","nickname":"Gonzalo Espinoza","user_nicename":"gespinoza","display_name":"Gonzalo Espinoza","user_email":"gespinoza@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/www.gespinozadav.com","user_registered":"2019-04-04 19:02:26","user_description":"Gonzalo Espinoza specializes in hydrologic modeling, real time climate and hydro-informatic tools such as flood mapping and forecasting using National Water Model data. He masters the full geospatial tech stack required to develop scalable and operational services relying on large volumes of EO data in the fields of water and environment. Gonzalo holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.\r\n\r\nFor questions about ArcGIS Living Atlas, contact environment@esri.com","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/head_shot_gonzalo_2-1-465x465.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"},{"ID":7841,"user_firstname":"Dan","user_lastname":"Pisut","nickname":"Dan Pisut","user_nicename":"dan-pisut","display_name":"Dan Pisut","user_email":"DPisut@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com","user_registered":"2018-04-16 21:24:57","user_description":"Dan leads development of ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World environmental content, which includes information about Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystems. 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