REANALYSES historical ERA40 monthly r1i1p1 Monthly Maximum Consecutive 5-day Precipitation from WCRP CLIVAR ETCCDI: Climate Extreme Indices from the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- latitude
- grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid
- longitude
- grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- time
- grid: /time (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Sep 1957) to (Aug 2002) by 1.0 N= 540 pts :grid
Other Info
- datatype
- realarraytype
- iridl:hasSemantics
- climdex:Rx5day
- missing_value
- 1.00000002E20
- units
- mm
- standard units*
- 0.001 meter
- history
- Created by climdex.pcic 0.6.1 on Mon Sep 24 10:51:48 2012
References
Sillmann, J., V. V. Kharin, X. Zhang, F. W. Zwiers, and D. Bronaugh (2013), Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 1. Model evaluation in the present climate, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 1716-1733, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50203.
Sillmann, J., V. V. Kharin, F. W. Zwiers, X. Zhang, and D. Bronaugh (2013), Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2473-2493, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50188.
Last updated: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT