Summary of precipitation datasets
Name | Snapshot | Source | Domain | Years of record | Timestep | Spatial Resolution | Formats | Input Data |
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An overview of paleoclimate information from high-resolution lake sediment records: Strengths, limitations and key databases |
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Global | Annual, Decadal, Irregular | ascii, csv, Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) | ||||
APHRODITE: Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of Water Resources |
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Hirosaki University | Asia | to | Climatology, Daily | 0.25x0.25 , 0.5x0.5 (whole Asia), , 0.05x0.05 (Japan only) | ascii, binary, netCDF | |
CHELSA high-resolution land surface temperature and precipitation |
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Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL , University of Hamburg , University of Zurich , University of Goettingen | Global | to | Climatology, Monthly | 30 arc sec | GeoTIFF |
ERA-Interim downscaled with geographic predictors and bias-corrected precip |
CHIRPS: Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (version 2) |
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Climate Hazards Center - UC Santa Barbara | Global | to | Climatology, Sub-daily, Daily, Monthly, Seasonal, Pentad | 0.05 or 0.1 degree | GeoTIFF, netCDF |
microwave & infrared satellite data blended with station data |
CMAP: CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation |
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NOAA CPC/Dr. Pingping Xie | Global | to | Monthly, Pentad | 2.5 x 2.5 | ascii, netCDF |
gague analysis; microwave and infrared observations from polar orbiting and geostationary satellites |
CMORPH (CPC MORPHing technique): High resolution precipitation (60S-60N) |
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Climate Prediction Center/R. Joyce, J.Janowiak | Global | to | Sub-daily, Daily | 0.25x0.25 | netCDF, binary |
satellite microwave |
Coral geochemical records: An overview of their use as climate proxies and of available databases |
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Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Tropics | ascii, HTML Table, Linked Paleo Data (LiPD), Matlab | |||||
COREv2 Air-Sea Surface Fluxes |
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NCAR / Bill Large & Steve Yeager | Global | to | Monthly | netCDF | ||
CPC Unified Gauge-Based Analysis of Global Daily Precipitation |
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Climate Prediction Center | Global | to | Daily | 0.5x0.5 | binary |
station gague data |
CRU TS Gridded precipitation and other meteorological variables since 1901 |
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Climatic Research Unit (CRU) / Ian Harris, Phil Jones | Global | to | Climatology, Monthly | 0.5x0.5 | netCDF, ascii |
~4000 station records primarily from CLIMAT, Monthly Climatic Data from the World, and World Weather Records |
Daymet: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries |
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ORNL/ Michele Thornton and Peter Thornton | North America | to | Climatology, Daily | 1km x 1km in 2x2 tiles | ascii, GeoTIFF, netCDF |
in-situ station observations, specifically from GHCN-daily |
E-OBS: High-resolution gridded mean/max/min temperature, precipitation and sea level pressure for Europe & Northern Africa |
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Copernicus Climate Change Service , Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute | Europe | to | Daily | 0.1 x 0.1 degrees | netCDF |
station data |
GHCN-D: Global Historical climatology Network daily temperatures |
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NOAA/ NCEI | Global | to | Daily | ascii | ||
Global (land) precipitation and temperature: Willmott & Matsuura, University of Delaware |
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U. Delaware / Cort J. Willmott, Kenji Matsuura | Global | to | Climatology, Monthly | 0.5x0.5 degree | netCDF, ascii |
land stations from GHCNv2 and a few other sources |
Global high-resolution precipitation: MSWEP |
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H.E. Beck, GloH2O.org, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Global | to | Sub-daily | 0.1° | netCDF |
gauge, satellite, and reanalysis precipitation estimates |
GPCC: Global Precipitation Climatology Centre |
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GPCC operated by DWD under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) | Global | to | Climatology, Daily, Monthly | 0.5x0.5, 1x1, 2.5x2.5 | netCDF, ascii |
station gague data |
GPCP (Daily): Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
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GSFC (NASA): G. Huffmann, D. Bolvin, R. Adler | Global | to | Daily | 1x1 | netCDF, binary |
station rain guage, satellite data |
GPCP (Monthly): Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
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GSFC (NASA) / G. Huffman, D. Bolvin, R. Adler, JJ Wang | Global | to | Climatology, Monthly | 2.5 x 2.5 (monthly) | binary, netCDF |
rain gauge stations, satellites, and sounding observations |
HadISD: Sub-daily, non-interpolated weather station data |
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Met Office - Hadley Centre | Robert Dunn | Global | to | Sub-daily | netCDF | ||
HOAPS: Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data |
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A. Andersson (DWD), S. Bakan (MPI), K. Fennig (DWD), C. Klepp (Uni. Hamburg) | Global | to | Climatology, Sub-daily, Monthly, Pentad | 0.5 x 0.5 | netCDF |
SSM/I passive microwave radiometers, except for the SST, which is taken from AVHRR |
IMERG precipitation algorithm and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission |
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NASA & Japan Aerospace Explorartion Agency | Global | to | Sub-daily, Daily, Monthly | 0.1x0.1 | GeoTIFF, HDF, netCDF, OPeNDAP |
multiple bands (microwave, IR, visible) from multiple satellites |
Livneh gridded precipitation and other meteorological variables for continental US, Mexico and southern Canada |
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Dr. Ben Livneh, University of Colorado | North America | to | Daily, Monthly | 1/16 degree (~6 km) | netCDF |
GHCN-daily; Environment Canada; Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Mexico); NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis |
NLDAS: North American Land Data Assimilation System |
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NASA, NOAA, Princeton, U. Washington | North America | to | Climatology, Sub-daily, Monthly | 0.125 (224 points latitude x 464 points longitude) | GRIB, netCDF |
observations & model reanalysis |
PERSIANN-CDR: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks - Climate Data Record |
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UCI Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing (CHRS): S. Sorooshian | Global | to | Sub-daily, Daily | 0.25x0.25 | binary, netCDF |
directly: IR satellite, indirectly: NCEP stage IV precipitation data, rain gauge, PMW satellite data |
PRISM High-Resolution Spatial Climate Data for the United States: Max/min temp, dewpoint, precipitation |
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Oregon State Univ (USDA, NOAA)/ C. Daly | North America | to | Climatology, Daily, Monthly | 4 km, 800m | ARC/INFO ASCII GRID, netCDF | |
TerraClimate: Global, high-resolution gridded temperature, precipitation, and other water balance variables |
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John Abatzoglou, University of California - Merced | Global | to | Climatology, Monthly | ~4 km (1/24th degree) | netCDF |
WorldClim, CRUTS4.0 |
TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
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NASA & Japan's National Space Development Agency | Tropics | to | Sub-daily, Daily, Monthly | 0.25x0.x25 , ~40S - 40N and ~50S - 50N | HDF, netCDF |
satellite microwave and IR; gauge (for calibration) |
Tropical Moored Buoy System: TAO, TRITON, PIRATA, RAMA (TOGA) |
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USA, Japan, France, Brazil, Indonesia, China/ M.J. McPhaden, others | Tropics | to | Sub-daily, Daily, Monthly, Weekly | netCDF, ascii |
Moored Bouy |