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Monthly CHIRPS Precipitation Dataset

Jul 25, 2023
Dataset extended description

Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset.
Spanning 50°S-50°N (and all longitudes), starting in 1981 to near-present, CHIRPS incorporates 0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring.

Dataset keywords
Dataset last access
Dataset JRC path

climate/CHIRS/data/montlhly/tif

Dataset type
Dataset category
Dataset format

geotiff

Dataset availability
FREE
Dataset temporal frequency
monthly
Dataset temporal extent
-
Dataset spatial extent
Dataset spatial resolution degree
0.05
Dataset spatial resolution description

about 5 km

Dataset region of interest
Dataset JRC contact
cesar.carmona-moreno@ec.europa.eu
Dataset credits

Funk, Chris, Pete Peterson, Martin Landsfeld, Diego Pedreros, James Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, Gregory Husak, James Rowland, Laura Harrison, Andrew Hoell & Joel Michaelsen. The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes. Scientific Data 2, 150066. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66 2015. https://chg.geog.ucsb.edu/data/chirps/index.html

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