Administration (NASA) Land Processes Distributed Active
Archive Center (LP DAAC), USGS/Earth Resources Observation
and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
(https://lpdaac.usgs. gov/data_access). The data used in this
study were acquired as part of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring
Mission (TRMM). The algorithms were developed by
the TRMM Science Team. The data were processed by the
TRMM Science Data and Information System (TSDIS) and
the TRMM office; they are archived and distributed by the
Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center. TRMM is an
international project jointly sponsored by the Japan National
Space Development Agency (NASDA) and the US-NASA
Office of Earth Sciences.