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The Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN)

The Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN) dataset contains daily and monthly precipitation from stations in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The most up to date versions of this data can be downloaded direclty from the PACRAIN web site

PACRAIN was significantly improved in 2008. Please see the home web site


PERIODS: 1874-01-01 to 2006-05-31
VARIABLES:
Precipitation Amount
TYPES: Platform Observation
COVERAGE: See the detailed metadata for coverage information
SOURCES: OK/OCS
Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Oklahoma
PUBLICATIONS: Greene,J. Scott, Michael Klatt, Mark Morrissey, Susan Postawko, 2008: The Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database. J. Atmos. and Ocean Tech., 25(1), 71-82 (DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA904.1).

Morrissey, M.L., M.A. Shafer, S. Postawko, and B. Gibson, 1993: Comprehensive Pacific rainfall data base. Tech. Note 93-003, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 18 pp.

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 ds484.0."
VOLUME: 3.04 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
MORE DETAILS: View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
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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