APHRODITE’s (Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation) daily gridded precipitation is the only long-term (1951 onward) continental-scale daily product that contains a dense network of daily rain-gauge data for Asia including the Himalayas, South and Southeast Asia and mountainous areas in the Middle East. The number of valid stations was between 5000 and 12,000, representing 2.3 to 4.5 times the data available through the Global Telecommunication System network, which were used for most daily grid precipitation products. The products are available on a regional basis.
NOTE: The web site: http://www.agrometeorology.org/topics/agromet-market-place/announcement-aphrodite-precipitation-data contains: "The APHRODITE project has successfully ended in March 2011"
Unfortunately, many data links are no longer valid.
National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 27 Feb 2017. "The Climate Data Guide: APHRODITE: Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of Water Resources." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/aphrodite-asian-precipitation-highly-resolved-observational-data-integration-towards.
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APHRODITE: Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of Water Resources
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December 22, 2013 - 6:23pmZhang Jianming of The normal university of Hunan says:
we need this data to research on spring persistent rains in southeast China
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May 3, 2016 - 4:11amMartin Pfeiffer of Mongolian National University says:
I tried in vain to download Aphrodite data. For the link "http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip/cgi-bin/aphrodite/script/aphrodite_cgi.cg..." the result is "404 NOT FOUND". So please check the link to the download page. Can you help me?