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UCSB CHIRPS v2p0 monthly global

CHIRPS v2p0 monthly global from UCSB: UC Santa Barbara.

Documents

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CHIRPS Home PageCHIRPS page at UCSB Climate Hazards Center
source
USGS Data Series 832Reference paper PDF

Datasets and variables

1981-2013 climatology.
regridded to 1.0 deg. lat/lon resolution.
CHIRPS monthly precipitation regridded to 1.0 deg. lat/lon resolution to match NMME models between 49S and 49N.
UCSB CHIRPS v2p0 monthly global precipitation[ X Y | T]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time (time) grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1981) to (Jun 2025) by 1.0 N= 534 pts :grid
Longitude (longitude) grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (180W) to (179.95E) by 0.05 N= 7200 pts :grid
Latitude (latitude) grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (49.975N) to (49.975S) by 0.05 N= 2000 pts :grid

References

Funk, C. C, Peterson, P. J., Landsfeld, M. F., Pedreros, D. H., Verdin, J. P., Rowland, J. D., Romero, B. E., Husak, G. J. Michaelsen, J. C., and Verdin, A. P., 2014, A quasi-global precipitation time series for drought monitoring: U. S. Geological Survey Data Series 832, 4 p., http://dx.doi.org/110.3133/ds832.

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