Rudolf's WCRP Global Preliminary Precipitation Analyses, monthly 1987-1988
This is a monthly merged precipitaion data set. The data
has been merged from rain gauge measurements, IR, SSMI and
the ECMWF model results. Contact Data Support at NCAR
to obtain more information on the blending scheme.
Note that these are only preliminary results.
PERIODS:
1987 to 1988
VARIABLES:
Precipitation Amount
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES:
Every month
TYPES:
Grid
COVERAGE:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=88.75S Northernmost=88.75N
Detailed coverage informationDetailed coverage information:
2.5° x 2.5°, 178.75W to 178.75E and 88.75N to 88.75S (144 x 72 Longitude/Latitude)
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, World Climate Research Programme
PUBLICATIONS:
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds239.0."
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Detailed coverage information
