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Chang's SSM/I Monthy Precipitation Estimates

This Global Precipitation Climate Project (GPCP) dataset contains 89 months of DMSP SSM/I derived monthly rainfall indices on a 5-degree latitude/longitude grid covering the oceans from 50S latitude to 50N. The period covered is July 1987 to December 1994 (December 1987 is missing because the SSM/I was turned off). DMSP F-8 SSM/I data were used from July 1987 to December 1991 and DMSP F-11 SSM/I data were used from January 1992 to December 1994.

PERIODS:

1987 to 1997

VARIABLES:

Precipitation Amount

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TYPES:

Grids

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC

Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

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 ds729.0."

VOLUME:

2.27 MBytes

DATA 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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