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        Float32 missing_value NaN;
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        String standard_name "surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air";
        String title "Daily downward surface shortwave radiation";
        String long_name "Downward Surface Shortwave Radiation";
        String units "W/m2";
        Float32 valid_max 450.0;
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        String long_name "ice surface elevation/bathymetry";
        String standard_name "surface_altitude";
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        String units "m";
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        Float32 missing_value NaN;
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        String standard_name "air_temperature";
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        String units "Celsius_scale";
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        String title "Daily 10m windspeed";
        String long_name "Windspeed";
        String units "m s-1";
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NC_GLOBAL {
    String Conventions "IRIDL";
    URL High resolution daily meteorological data for northern/west/east Africa "http://hydrology.princeton.edu/data.metdata_africa.php";
    String title "Princeton University Hydroclimatology Group Bias Corrected African (1979-2005) Meteorological Forcing Dataset V1.0";
    String institution "Princeton University";
    String source "Forcings are a hybrid of NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and observations";
    String contact "Justin Sheffield (justin@princeton.edu)";
    String comment "This dataset is described in Chaney and Sheffield (2012) (Chaney, N., and J. Sheffield, 2012: High Resolution Gridded Daily Meteorological Data for Africa: Dataset Development and Analysis of Trends in Means and Extremes, J. Climate, to be submitted) and is related to the original global version reported in Sheffield et al., J. Climate (2006). Updates/changes include: i. African continent domain; ii. extension to 2005; iii. assimilation of available GHCN/GSOD daily station observations; iv. step change detection and correction for observational datasets; v. improved sampling procedure for correction of rain day statistics; vi. use of latest versions of CRU, SRB and TRMM products; vii. improved consistency between specific and relative humidity and air temperature. See Sheffield et al., J. Climate (2006) for details of the observations used and the bias correction and downscaling methodology.";
    String references "Chaney_Sheffield2013 Sheffield_etal2006";
    String 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";
}
}