PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGIES
The Hydrology Data Support Team at the Goddard DAAC maintains archives of various climatologies of global monthly precipitation data:
- Arkin & Janowiak:IR-Based Monthly Rainfall for the GPCP
Temporal Coverage: Monthly mean from January 1986 to December 1995 Spatial Coverage: 2.5° latitude x 2.5° longitude, global (40N-40S) Distribution Methods: (1)Anonymous FTP Number of Files: 1 file Volume: 4.4 MB Documentation: Arkin & Janowiak:IR-Based Monthly Rainfall File Type: ASCII File Name: gpi_mth_sat-merged_mmday_asc_0186-1295 - Chang SSM/I Derived Monthly Rain Indices for the GPCP
Temporal Coverage: Monthly means from July 1987 to December 1995 Spatial Coverage: 5.0° latitude x 5.0° longitude, global Ocean (50N-50S) Distribution Methods: (1) Anonymous FTP Number of Files: 1 file Volume: 1.2 MB Documentation: Chang SSM/I Derived Monthly Rain Indices File Type: ASCII File Name: GPCP_SSMI_1295_5.0_v23 - GPCC Rain Gauge Analysis for the GPCP
Temporal Coverage: Monthly means from January 1986 to December 1996 Spatial Coverage: 2.5° latitude x 2.5° longitude, global (90N-90S) Distribution Methods: (1) Anonymous FTP Number of Files: 1 file per year Volume: 3.1 MB per year Documentation: GPCC Rain Gauge Analysis for the GPCP File Type: ASCII - GPCP Version 2 Combined Precipitation (Satellite-Gauge) Data Set
Temporal Coverage: Monthly means from January 1979 to April 2005 Spatial Coverage: 2.5° latitude x 2.5° longitude, global (90N-90S) Distribution Methods: (1) Anonymous FTP Number of Files: 2 files per year (updated throughout the course of a year
as more recent months are processed)Volume: 1 MB per year Documentation: GPCP Version 2 Combined Precipitation Data Set File Type: Binary with ASCII header - Jaeger Global Monthly Mean Precipitation (Rain Gauge)
Temporal Coverage: Monthly means from January 1931 to December 1965 (1931-60 Land; 1955-65 Ocean) Spatial Coverage: 2.5° latitude x 5.0° longitude, global (90N - 90S) Distribution Methods: (1) Anonymous FTP Number of Files: 1 file Volume: 0.125 MB (compression factor ~ 1/8) Documentation: Jaeger Global Monthly Mean Precipitation File Type: ASCII File Name: jaeger.dat.Z - Legates Surface & Ship Observations of Precipitation (Rain Gauge)
Temporal Coverage: Monthly means from January 1920 to December 1980 Spatial Coverage: 0.5° latitude x 0.5° longitude, global (90N-90S) Distribution Methods: (1) Anonymous FTP Number of Files: 1 file Volume: 5.4 MB (compression factor ~1/4) Documentation: Legates Surface & Ship Observations of Precipitation File Type: ASCII File Name: legates.cor.Z