NASA GPCP V1B

V1B from NASA GPCP: Combined satellite-gauge precipitation estimates and error estimates from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project.

Documents

overview	an outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset
dataset documentation

Datasets and variables

AGPI	NASA GPCP V1B AGPI[prcp err ]
gauge	NASA GPCP V1B gauge[err nsamp prcp ]
GPI	NASA GPCP V1B GPI[prcp nsamp ]
multi-satellite	NASA GPCP V1B multi-satellite[prcp err ]
satellite-gauge	NASA GPCP V1B satellite-gauge[prcp err ]
SSMI_combined	NASA GPCP V1B SSMI_combined[err nsamp prcp src ]
SSMI_emission	NASA GPCP V1B SSMI_emission[prcp nsamp ]
SSMI_scattering	NASA GPCP V1B SSMI_scattering[prcp nsamp ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time	grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jul 1987) to (Sep 1998) by 1. N= 135 pts :grid
Longitude	grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (1.25E) to (1.25W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
Latitude	grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (88.75N) to (88.75S) by 2.5 N= 72 pts :grid

Other Info

iridl:hasSemantics: iriref:Huffman_GL

References

Huffman, G. J., R.F. Adler, P.A. Arkin, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, A. Gruber, J. Janowiak, R.J. Joyce, A. McNab, B. Rudolf, U. Schneider, and P. Xie, 1997: The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Combined Precipitation Data Set. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 5-20.

Last updated: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:05:20 GMT