Independent Variables (Grids)

Longitude

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

Latitude

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

Other Info

actual_range

[ -10858.0 8224.0 ]

CE

8752

CS

0

datatype

realarraytype

maxncolor

254

missing_value

NaN

scale_max

8752.0

scale_min

0.0

source

NOAA NGDC ETOPO1 z_ice data selected over the NWE_Africa region and regridded to 0.25 deg. lat/lon gridding to match CHIRPS precipitation data

standard_name

surface_altitude

units

m

standard units*

meter

history

[(Boxes with less than 0.0% dropped) (Boxes with less than 0.0% dropped)]

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.

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