Data Library NOAA NCEP CPC UNIFIED_PRCP GAUGE_BASED GLOBAL v1p0 RETRO
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NOAA NCEP CPC UNIFIED_PRCP GAUGE_BASED GLOBAL v1p0 RETRO

GAUGE_BASED GLOBAL v1p0 RETRO from NOAA NCEP CPC UNIFIED_PRCP: CPC Unified Precipitation Analyses.

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Datasets and variables

NOAA NCEP CPC UNIFIED_PRCP GAUGE_BASED GLOBAL v1p0 RETRO EOD[ X Y |]
NOAA NCEP CPC UNIFIED_PRCP GAUGE_BASED GLOBAL v1p0 RETRO gnum[ X Y | T]
NOAA NCEP CPC UNIFIED_PRCP GAUGE_BASED GLOBAL v1p0 RETRO rain[ X Y | T]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time (time) grid: /T (days since 1960-01-01 00:00:00) ordered (0000 1 Jan 1979) to (0000 31 Dec 2005) by 1.0 N= 9862 pts :grid
Longitude (longitude) grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.25E) to (0.25W) by 0.5 N= 720 pts :grid
Latitude (latitude) grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.75S) to (89.75N) by 0.5 N= 360 pts :grid

Other Info

iridl:hasSemantics
gcmdi:RAIN_GAUGES

References

Xie_etal2007

Chen, M., W. Shi, P. Xie, V. B. S. Silva, V E. Kousky, R. Wayne Higgins, and J. E. Janowiak (2008), Assessing objective techniques for gauge-based analyses of global daily precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D04110, doi:10.1029/2007JD009132.

Chen, M., P. Xie, and Co-authors (2008), CPC Unified Gauge-based Analysis of Global Daily Precipitation, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 29 July - 1 August, 2008.

Last updated: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:51:22 GMT

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