precipitation from NASA GPCP: Combined satellite-gauge precipitation estimates and error estimates from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (0000 1 Jan) to (0000 1 Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (1.25E) to (1.25W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (88.75N) to (88.75S) by 2.5 N= 72 pts :grid
Other Info
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- realarraytype
- file_missing_value
- -99999.0
- missing_value
- NaN
- pointwidth
- 0
- technique
- Multi-Satellite
- units
- 5.52621330180192×10-08 meter radian-1 east second-1 year
- history
- Averaged over T2[16 Dec 1978 - 15 Dec 1979, 16 Dec 2006 - 15 Dec 2007] minimum 0.0% data present
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.
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