TRMM/PR L3 Monthly Rainfall is obtained from the PR sensor onboard TRMM and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Precipitation Radar (PR) is the primary instrument onboard TRMM. The most innovative of the five TRMM instruments, the PR is the first quantitative rain radar instrument to be flown in space. The major objectives of the PR instrument are as follows:a. Provides a 3-dimensional rainfall structureb. Achieves quantitative measurements of the rain rates over both land and ocean When properly combined with TMI measurements, the Precipitation Radar (PR) data is instrumental in obtaining the height profile of the precipitation content, from which the profile of latent heat release from the Earth can be estimated. The rain rate is estimated from the radar reflectivity factor when the rain rate is small by applying conventional algorithms used for ground-based radar. For large rain rates, a rain attenuation correction is made using the total-path attenuation of land or sea surface echoes.Monthly average of rain parameter at the height of 2, 4, 6, (10, 15) km in lon./lat. 5deg x 5deg and 0.5deg x 0.5deg region using TRMM/PR 1C21, 2A21, 2A23 and 2A25. (* 10,15km data are available only for 5deg x 5deg gridded region.The provided format is HDF4. The statistical period is 1 month. The current version of the product is Version 7. The generation unit is global.