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CHIRPS precipitation
more information CHIRPS Version 2.0
X axis: whole world in 1440 0.25° steps, first point at 179.88° W, last point at 179.88° E
Y axis: regular grid with 400 0.25° steps, first point at 49.88° S, last point at 49.88° N

1-daily data available from 01Jan1981 to 31Jan2024 ( 15769 times)
Variable precip (Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations) in mm/day
Full metadata.

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
helpApply daily high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value days
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -day running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of precipitation
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Area with extremes
Compute area with annual -day average minimum or maximum extreme beyond 1 in 10 yr return values.

Compute zonal mean

Compute annual cycle
Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, CHIRPS precipitation is available as a netcdf file (size 3273.37 MB).
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