monthly precipitation (monitoring) product,  number of gauges per grid, 
proportion of solid/liquid precipitation (new since 2007) and
monthly systematic gauge measuring error (new since 2007)
on 2.5 ° and 1.0 ° gridcells



You can download the monthly precipitation (monitoring) product,, the number of stations/gauges per grid used for this product,
the proportion of solid/liquid precipitation per grid and the monthly systematic gauge measuring error (new since 2007).
Available are 3 encoded archive formats (since January 2007 only .zip)
".zip" (DOS/Windows ZIP-Format), ".tar.Z" and ".tar.gz" (UNIX TAR-Format, UNIX compressed or gzip'ed).
Tar-Archives include 1 year of global data (12 month, 12 files).
The latest year may be incomplete.

Archives gpccGGYY.zip, gpccGGYYYY_monitoring.zip (since 2007)
gpcc_GG_yearYY_monitor_gauge.tar.gz
gpcc_GG_yearYY_monitor_gauge.tar.Z

single files
gpcc_GG_MMYY_monitor_gauge.Z
gpcc_GG_MMYY_monitor_gauge.gz

Filenames per archive gpcc_GG_MMYY_monitor_gauge
GG = gridsize (10 => 1.0 °, 25 => 2.5 °);
MM = month (01 - 12);
YY   = year (86, .., 97, 98, ..)

Extensions .Z   = UNIX compressed (uncompress) 
.gz  = gzip (gunzip) 
.tar = archive (tar -xovf  filename)
.zip = archive (pkunzip, unzip etc.)

Example

Decoding of the archives

gpcc1094.zip or gpcc102007_monitoring.zip (since 2007)
gpcc_10_year94_monitor_gauge.tar.gz or
gpcc_10_year94_monitor_gauge.tar.Z

will create up to 12 files (ASCII) named

gpcc_10_0194_monitor_gauge , gpcc_10_012007_monitoring_product (since 2007)
gpcc_10_0294_monitor_gauge , gpcc_10_022007_monitoring_product (since 2007)
gpcc_10_0394_monitor_gauge , gpcc_10_032007_monitoring_product (since 2007)
:
:
:
gpcc_10_1294_monitor_gauge , gpcc_10_122007_monitoring_product (since 2007)