The First Year of Day-1 IMERG Data and Future Directions

George John Huffman1, David T Bolvin2, Dan Braithwaite3, Kuo-lin Hsu4, Robert Joyce5, Christopher Kidd6, Eric Nelkin2, Soroosh Sorooshian7 and Pingping Xie8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)NOAA/NCEP/CPC, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, (7)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (8)NOAA/NCEP, College Park, United States