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CHIRPS precipitation
References
official web page http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/832/
Climate Explorer URLclimexp.knmi.nl/select.cgi?chirps_20_25_mo
Climate Explorer filenameCHIRPSData/v2p0chirps_mo_25.nc
Variable
nameprecip
unitsmm/month
long_nameClimate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations
standard_nameconvective precipitation rate
Netcdf global metadata
CDIClimate Data Interface version 2.3.0 (mpimet.mpg.de/cdi)
ConventionsCF-1.6
institutionClimate Hazards Group. University of California at Santa Barbara
titleCHIRPS Version 2.0
versionVersion 2.0
date_created2015-10-07
creator_namePete Peterson
creator_emailpete@geog.ucsb.edu
documentationpubs.usgs.gov/ds/832/
referenceFunk, C.C., Peterson, P.J., Landsfeld, M.F., Pedreros, D.H., Verdin, J.P., Rowland, J.D., Romero, B.E., Husak, G.J., Michaelsen, J.C., and Verdin, A.P., 2014, A quasi-global precipitation time series for drought monitoring: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 832, 4 p., dx.doi.org/110.3133/ds832.
comments time variable denotes the first day of the given day.
acknowledgementsThe Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations development process was carried out through U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cooperative agreement #G09AC000001 \Monitoring and Forecasting Climate, Water and Land Use for Food Production in the Developing World\ with funding from: U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Food for Peace, award #AID-FFP-P-10-00002 for \Famine Early Warning Systems Network Support,\ the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Applied Sciences Program, Decisions award #NN10AN26I for \A Land Data Assimilation System for Famine Early Warning,\ SERVIR award #NNH12AU22I for \A Long Time-Series Indicator of Agricultural Drought for the Greater Horn of Africa,\ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration award NA11OAR4310151 for \A Global Standardized Precipitation Index supporting the US Drought Portal and the Famine Early Warning System Network,\ and the USGS Land Change Science Program.
ftp_urlchg-ftpout.geog.ucsb.edu/pub/org/chg/products/CHIRPS-latest/
websitechg.geog.ucsb.edu/data/chirps/index.html
faqchg-wiki.geog.ucsb.edu/wiki/CHIRPS_FAQ
geospatial_lat_min-50.005f
geospatial_lat_max50.005f
geospatial_lat_unitsdegrees_north
geospatial_lon_min-180.005f
geospatial_lon_max180.005f
geospatial_lon_unitsdegrees_east
geospatial_lat_resolution0.25f
geospatial_lon_resolution0.25f
time_coverage_start1981-01-01
time_coverage_end2024-02-29
frequencymon
CDOClimate Data Operators version 2.3.0 (mpimet.mpg.de/cdo)
historyWed Apr 10 12:56:44 2024: ncatted -a units,precip,m,c,mm/month v2p0chirps_mo_25.nc
Wed Apr 10 12:56:28 2024: cdo -r -f nc4 -z zip settaxis,1981-01-15,0:00,1month v2p0chirps_mo_25_tmp.nc v2p0chirps_mo_25.nc
Wed Apr 10 12:54:32 2024: cdo -r -f nc4 -z zip monsum v2p0chirps_25.nc v2p0chirps_mo_25_tmp.nc
Wed Apr 10 12:06:42 2024: cdo -r -f nc4 -z zip copy chirps-v2.0.1981.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1982.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1983.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1984.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1985.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1986.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1987.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1988.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1989.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1990.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1991.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1992.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1993.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1994.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1995.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1996.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1997.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1998.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.1999.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2000.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2001.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2002.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2003.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2004.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2005.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2006.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2007.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2008.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2009.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2010.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2011.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2012.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2013.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2014.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2015.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2016.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2017.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2018.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2019.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2020.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2021.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2022.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2023.days_p25.nc chirps-v2.0.2024.days_p25.nc v2p0chirps_25.nc
created by Climate Hazards Group
NCO = netCDF Operators version 5.1.4 (Homepage = nco.sf.net, Codehttp://github.com/nco/nco)
climexp_urlclimexp.knmi.nl/select.cgi?chirps_20_25_mo
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