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Hulme's Gridded Global Land Precipitation Climatology

A historic monthly gridded precipitation dataset for global land areas. This dataset contains monthly preciptation from station rain gauges which have been averaged for geographic boxes for January, 1900 thru December, 1998. The data is available for both a 5 degree by 5 degree grid and a 2.5 degree latitude by 3.75 degree longitude grid, but values are only available over land.

PERIODS:

1900-01-01 to 1998-12-31

VARIABLES:

Precipitation Amount

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TIMES:

Every month

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=87.5S Northernmost=87.5N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
3.75° x 2.5°, 180W to 176.25E and 87.5S to 87.5N (96 x 71 Latitude/Longitude)
5° x 5°, 177.5W to 177.5E and 87.5S to 87.5N (72 x 36 Latitude/Longitude)

SOURCES:

UEA/CRU

Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia

VOLUME:

16.59 MBytes

FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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