V2p1 GPI number of samples from NASA GPCP: Combined satellite-gauge precipitation estimates and error estimates from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1986) to (Apr 2009) by 1.0 N= 280 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (1.25E) to (1.25W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (88.75N) to (88.75S) by 2.5 N= 72 pts :grid
Other Info
- bufferwordsize
- 4
- datatype
- realarraytype
- missing_value
- -99999.0
- pointwidth
- 0
- units
- number of 2.5 deg. images
References
Adler, R. F., G. J. Huffman, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, P. Xie, J. Janowiak, B. Rudolf, U. Schneider, S. Curtis, D. Bolvin, A. Gruber, J. Susskind, P. Arkin, E. J. Nelkin, 2003: The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979-Present). J. Hydrometeor., 4(6), 1147-1167.
Huffman, G. J., R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, G. Gu, 2009: Improving the global precipitation record: GPCP Version 2.1. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L17808, doi:10.1029/2009GL040000.
Last updated: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:33:14 GMT