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CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP)
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Precipitation from five kinds of satellite estimates and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis model output are combined
for global coverage monthly precipitation values. The standard products merge only
the 5 kinds of satellite estimates (GPI,OPI,SSM/I scattering, SSM/I emission and MSU). The enhanced products merge the satellite estimates with the blended NCEP/NCAR
Reanalysis precipitation. Both products are available as monthly totals, pentads and
long term monthly means on a global 2.5 degree latitude-longitude grid.
All data is in the netCDF format.
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| PERIODS: |
1979-01 to 2006-06
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| VARIABLES: |
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| LEVELS: |
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| TIMES: |
Every month
Every 5 days
Monthly Climatology
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=88.75S Northernmost=88.75N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
2.5° x 2.5°, 1.25E to 358.75E and 88.75N to 88.75S (144 x 72 Longitude/Latitude)
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| SOURCES: |
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| RELATED SITES: |
CDC's official CMAP web site
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Xie, P. and P.A. Arkin, 1997: A 17-Year Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates and Numerical Model Outputs. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 2539-2558.
Xie, P. and P.A. Arkin, 1996: Analysis of Global Monthly Precipitation Using Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates and Numerical Model Predictions. J. Clim., 9, 840-858.
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 ds728.1."
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| VOLUME: |
190.75 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
netCDF
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| 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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| DATA ACCESS: |
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