NASA TRMM rainfall data

TLDR: I used NASA TRMM rainfall data for my MSc Thesis in Economics exploring the effects of rainfall shocks on child health by gender in rural Ethiopia. My thesis partner, Björn, and I had no idea what we were getting into and it ended up serving as a crash course in R.

• Description
• Overview
• Contribution

Description

Now that I have been developing my coding skills, my goals for this repo are to:

• Refactor the original R code (lots of room for improvement)
• Write documentation to help others tap into the wealth of rainfall data (NASA is the best!)
• Work on a Python version of the code

Structure

Docs

The process of using rainfall data can be challenging and has lots of steps, hence this guide (WIP):

• Guide to using NASA TRMM data

And if you're interested in what this was all for or to get a little more context into my thesis work:

• This is my MSc Thesis in a very small nutshell

Code

The code will then be broken out by language in the following folders:

• R
• Python

Data

The raw data will live in the following folder:

• Data

Contribution

I would love for this work to be as useful as possible so please feel free to fork the repo or send me an email with any suggestions for improvement!