EO:EUM:DAT:MSG:HPIHigh Resolution Precipitation Index - MSG - 0 degreeseriesAtmospheric conditionsWeatherClimateHumidityAtmosphereEUMETSAT Data Centre2013-01-28The High Resolution Precipitation Index (HPI) generation is based on the relationship between the channel top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiance equivalent black body temperature (EBBT) of clouds and convective rainfall. The idea of this relationship is that clouds with cold tops are convective rain-bearing clouds. The scheme is a cloud indexing method based on the pixel values of an IR channel. It estimates an hourly accumulated precipitation. The final HPI product is sent to the UMARF once a day and stored. Applications and Users: Climate research by the WMO's Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP).2010-11-26Full Disk 0 degrees-copyrightcopyrightHPIMSGHRPI2009-03-23-79.0 -81.079.0 81.0