Independent Variables (Grids)

time (time)

grid: /T (days since 1960-01-01 12:00:00) ordered (1 Jan 1979) to (31 Dec 2005) by 1.0 N= 9862 pts :grid

Longitude (longitude)

grid: /X (degree_east) ordered (19.875W) to (54.875E) by 0.25 N= 300 pts :grid

Latitude (latitude)

grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (4.875S) to (24.875N) by 0.25 N= 120 pts :grid

Other Info

datatype

realarraytype

file_missing_value

-999.0

missing_value

NaN

pointwidth

0

standard_name

surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air

title

Daily downward surface shortwave radiation

units

W /m²

valid_max

450.0

valid_min

60.0

standard units*

kilogram second^-3

history

regridded by averaging to match gridding of CHIRPS v1.8 daily precipitation dataset over spatial domain common to both at 0.25 deg lat/lon resolution

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.

Last updated: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:40:40 GMT