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Diaz' Global Land Precipitation Analyses, monthly 1851-1989

This is a dataset of world monthly precipitation data from stations, and the associated monthly gridded analyses, 1851-1989. This dataset also contains a gridded monthly long term climatology and gridded monthly anomolies. In all cases, the grid is a 4 degree latitude by 5 degree longitude grid, from 62 degress South to 86 degree North latitude and 0 degree to 355 degree East longitude. .



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PERIODS: 1851 to 1989
VARIABLES:
Precipitation Amount
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Every month Monthly Climatology
TYPES: Grid Platform Observation
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=62S Northernmost=86N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/OAR/CDC
Climate Diagnostics Center, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS
Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
PUBLICATIONS: Eischeid, J.K., H.F. Diaz, R.S. Bradley, and P.D. Jones, 1991: A comprehensive precipitation data set for global land areas. TR051, U.S. Department of Energy, 82 pp.

VOLUME: 86.43 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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