Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 regriddedtoARC2 daily Estimated Precipitation: CPC/Africa Rainfall Climatology 2: Daily Values.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (days since 1960-01-01 12:00:00) ordered (1 Jan 1983) to (13 Jun 2025) by 1.0 N= 15505 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) ordered (19.9W) to (55E) by 0.1 N= 750 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (4.9S) to (24.9N) by 0.09999999 N= 299 pts :grid
Other Info
- bufferwordsize
- 4
- CE
- 600
- CS
- 0
- datatype
- realarraytype
- maxncolor
- 254
- missing_value
- -999.0
- pointwidth
- 1.0
- scale_max
- 600.0
- scale_min
- 0.0
- standard_name
- lwe_precipitation_rate
- units
- mm /day
- standard units*
- 1.15740740740741×10-08 meter second-1
- history
- regridded by averaging to match gridding of ARC2 daily precipitation dataset over spatial domain common to both
- colorscale
References
Chaney, N., and J. Sheffield, 2013: Spatial analysis of trends in climatic extremes with a high resolution gridded daily meteorological data set over Central Africa, to be submitted.
Sheffield, J., G. Goteti, and E. F. Wood, 2006: Development of a 50-yr high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling, J. Climate, 19 (13), 3088-3111.
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