The Hydrology Data Support Team at the Goddard DAAC maintains archives of various climatologies of global monthly precipitation data:
- Arkin & Janowiak:IR-Based Monthly Rainfall for the GPCP
| Temporal Coverage: | Monthly mean from January 1986 to December 1995 |
| Spatial Coverage: | 2.5° latitude x 2.5° longitude, global (40N-40S) |
| Distribution Methods: | (1)Anonymous FTP |
| Number of Files: | 1 file |
| Volume: | 4.4 MB |
| Documentation: | Arkin & Janowiak:IR-Based Monthly Rainfall |
| File Type: | ASCII |
| File Name: | gpi_mth_sat-merged_mmday_asc_0186-1295 |
- Chang SSM/I Derived Monthly Rain Indices for the GPCP
| Temporal Coverage: | Monthly means from July 1987 to December 1995 |
| Spatial Coverage: | 5.0° latitude x 5.0° longitude, global Ocean (50N-50S) |
| Distribution Methods: | (1) Anonymous FTP |
| Number of Files: | 1 file |
| Volume: | 1.2 MB |
| Documentation: | Chang SSM/I Derived Monthly Rain Indices |
| File Type: | ASCII |
| File Name: | GPCP_SSMI_1295_5.0_v23 |
- GPCC Rain Gauge Analysis for the GPCP
| Temporal Coverage: | Monthly means from January 1986 to December 1996 |
| Spatial Coverage: | 2.5° latitude x 2.5° longitude, global (90N-90S) |
| Distribution Methods: | (1) Anonymous FTP |
| Number of Files: | 1 file per year |
| Volume: | 3.1 MB per year |
| Documentation: | GPCC Rain Gauge Analysis for the GPCP |
| File Type: | ASCII |
- GPCP Version 2 Combined Precipitation (Satellite-Gauge) Data Set
| Temporal Coverage: | Monthly means from January 1979 to April 2005 |
| Spatial Coverage: | 2.5° latitude x 2.5° longitude, global (90N-90S) |
| Distribution Methods: | (1) Anonymous FTP |
| Number of Files: | 2 files per year (updated throughout the course of a year
as more recent months are processed) |
| Volume: | 1 MB per year |
| Documentation: | GPCP Version 2 Combined Precipitation Data Set |
| File Type: | Binary with ASCII header |
- Jaeger Global Monthly Mean Precipitation (Rain Gauge)
| Temporal Coverage: | Monthly means from January 1931 to December 1965 |
| | (1931-60 Land; 1955-65 Ocean) |
| Spatial Coverage: | 2.5° latitude x 5.0° longitude, global (90N - 90S) |
| Distribution Methods: | (1) Anonymous FTP |
| Number of Files: | 1 file |
| Volume: | 0.125 MB (compression factor ~ 1/8) |
| Documentation: | Jaeger Global Monthly Mean Precipitation |
| File Type: | ASCII |
| File Name: | jaeger.dat.Z |
- Legates Surface & Ship Observations of Precipitation (Rain Gauge)
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