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GPCC Normals Version 2010



You can download our climatology product (GPCC Normals Version 2010). Each file includes one year of data, one month per column and the sum of year in column 13. The products are available in 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0° and 2.5° degree gridsize. For each gridsize you'll find two files containing the "precipitation totals" or "the number of stations per grid".

Example of 2.5 ° normals (precipitation totals)

11 : rows to skip
GPCC Precipitation Normals Version 2010
precipitation totals in mm/month
Info: http://gpcc.dwd.de
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Grid : 2.5 degree
Area : LON -180.00 to 180.00 LAT 90.00 to -90.00
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column 1-13 : precipitation totals in mm/month for january to december, sum of year
row : grid values from west to east, north to south
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-99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99
-99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99
-99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99 -99999.99
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Relation of rows and gridcells:

Example for 2.5 ° grids

144 * 72 = 10368 gridcells, row #1(+header) to #10368(+header)
 
row gridcell centre coordinates
#1 + header 1 -178,75°W / +88,75°N
#144 + header 144 +178,75°E / +88,75°N
#10225 + header 10225 -178,75°W / -88,75°S
#10368 + header 10368 +178,75°E / -88,75°S

The following table shows the global gridsystem
-180/+90 (West/North) +180/+90 (East/North)
 
1 2 3 4 ... 144
145 146 147 148 ... 288
10225 10226 10227 10228 ... 10368
 
-180/-90 (West/South) +180/-90 (East/South)
 

0.25 ° , 0.5 ° , 1.0 ° grids are ordered similar to the system as shown above

=> 1036800, 259200, 64800 gridcells


 
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