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NCEP/NCAR precipitation
more information mean daily NMC reanalysis (1948)
X axis: whole world in 192 1.88° steps, first point at 0.00° E, last point at 358.12° E
Y axis: Gaussian grid with 94 steps, first point at 88.54° N, last point at 88.54° S

1-daily data available from 01Jan1948 to 08Nov2024 ( 28129 times)
Variable prate (mean Daily Precipitation Rate at surface) in Kg/m^2/s
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Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Year range: -
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
Units: convert to mm/day leave in Kg/m^2/s 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.

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Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, NCEP/NCAR precipitation is available as a netcdf file (size 705.619 MB).
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