oai:edu.ucar.rda:ds728.4 | Climate Data Guide

Dataset Name

GPCP Version 2.3 Monthly Analysis Product

Metadata Identifier

oai:edu.ucar.rda:ds728.4

Start Date

1979-01-01

End Date

2020-07-31

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GPCP (Monthly): Global Precipitation Climatology Project

Years of record

1979-01 to 2020-07

Data from rain gauge stations, satellites, and sounding observations have been merged to estimate monthly rainfall on a 2.5-degree global grid from 1979 to the present. The careful combination of satellite-based rainfall estimates provides the most complete analysis of rainfall available to date over the global oceans, and adds necessary spatial detail to the rainfall…
Main variables and Earth System components
Atmosphere Precipitation
Formats

binary, netCDF

Timestep

Climatology, Monthly

Domain

Global

Collections

Climate Analysis Section (CAS) Data Catalog, Diagnostic Data Sets, NCAR-DOE-CESM, atmosdiagnostics, climatevariabilitydiagnostics(CVDP), Obs4MIPS
Experts contributing reviews

Pendergrass, Angeline, Wang, Jian-Jian

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