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GPCC Full Data Daily Version 2022
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DOI for Scientific and Technical Data

10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_D_V2022_100 (for 1.0° resolution)


Title

GPCC Full Data Daily Version 2022 at 1.0°: Daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data
Subtitle

Globally Gridded Monthly Totals
New

As in the previous version, the interpolation method is again a modified SPHEREMAP scheme, which is also applied for the monthly products. The names of the variables are consistent with the Full Data Monthly V.2022. Again, the monthly background fields are supplemented by a "climatological infilling" for regions where an entire 5° grid is without any station to avoid interpolation artefacts.
For further informations about the new method read our Product Info

The temporal coverage of the dataset ranges from January 1982 until December 2020.
Citation

Ziese, Markus; Rauthe-Schöch, Armin; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Hänsel, Stephanie; Schneider, Udo (2022):
GPCC Full Data Daily Version 2022 at 1.0°: Daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_D_V2022_100
Creators

Ziese, Markus; Rauthe-Schöch, Armin; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Hänsel, Stephanie; Schneider, Udo
Publisher

Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC, http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst
Publication Year

2022
Summary

This is the GPCC Full Data Daily Product Version 2022 of daily global land-surface precipitation totals based on precipitation data provided by national meteorological and hydrological services, regional and global data collections as well as WMO GTS-data.
It is provided at a regular latitude/longitude grid with a spatial resolution of 1.0 x 1.0 degree and covers the time period from January 1982 to December 2020 (one year per file).
Relative precipitation anomalies at the stations (daily totals divided by monthly total) are interpolated by means of a modified SPHEREMAP scheme (Becker et al., 2013 (10.5194/essd-5-71-2013); Schamm et al., 2014 (10.5194/essd-6-49-2014); Schneider et al., 2018) and then superimposed on the GPCC Full Data Monthly Version 2022 (DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2022_100) monthly precipitation totals with climatological infilling.

This GPCC product is recommended to be used when the daily precipitation information is of highest importance, e.g. for analyses of extreme events and related statistics at daily resolution.
Peer-reviewed Articles

"Global gridded precipitation over land: a description of the new GPCC First Guess Daily product"
K. Schamm, M. Ziese, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, U. Schneider, M. Schröder, and P. Stender
in Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-6-49-2014

"Evaluating the hydrological cycle over land using the newly-corrected precipitation climatology from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)"
U. Schneider, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, E. Rustemeier, M. Ziese, and A. Becker
in Atmosphere, DOI: 10.3390/atmos8030052

"GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle"
U. Schneider, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, M. Ziese, B. Rudolf
in Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0860-x

"A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901-present"
A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B. Rudolf, K. Schamm, U. Schneider, and M. Ziese
in Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-5-71-2013

"The GPCC Drought Index - a new, combined and gridded global drought index"
M. Ziese, U. Schneider, A. Meyer-Christoffer, K. Schamm, J. Vido, P. Finger, P. Bissoli, S.Pietsch, A. Becker
in Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-6-285-2014
General user recommendations

Users are referred to the following gridded Global Precipitation Climate Centre (GPCC) products:

GPCC Precipitation Analysis Climatology 1951-2000 (GPCC_CLIMAT) with high representativeness, for application as a reference, and for utilization of the anomaly interpolation method.

GPCC Precipitation Analysis Monthly (GPCC_MONTHLY) with high accuracy, for, e.g., verification of models, or for analysis of historical global precipitation, or for research concerning the global water cycle, e.g., teleconnection analyses.

GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily (GPCC_FD_D) is recommended to be used when the daily precipitation information is of highest importance, e.g. for analyses of extreme events and related statistics at daily resolution.

GPCC HOMPRA-Europe (HOMPRA-Europe) with homogenized precipitation data, suitable for trend analyses.

GPCC Monitoring Product (GPCC_MP) with high availability and reasonable timeliness, for applications like calibration of satellite data, or early annual reporting.

GPCC First Guess Monthly Product (GPCC_FG) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.

GPCC First Guess Daily Product (GPCC_FG_D) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.

GPCC Drought Index Product (GPCC_DI_M) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.

Please notice also the GPCC Download Gate with the current versions of all GPCC datasets and additional informations.
Version

2022
Temporal Coverage

1982/01 - 2020/12
Spatial Coverage

Latitude: -90.0° to 90.0°; Longitude: -180.0° to 180.0°
Data Format(s)

gzip compressed NetCDF format description
Tools

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Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer Panoply Home
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Datasize

approx. 25 MB per gzip file
Contact

Dr. Markus Ziese, Head
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
c/o Deutscher Wetterdienst
Postfach 10 04 65
D-63004 Offenbach/Main
GERMANY
e-mail: gpcc@dwd.de

Tel.: + 49 (0)69 / 8062-2973
Supplementary infos

Product Info
Terms of Use

Download GPCC Full Data Daily Version 2022


NetCDF Format (gzip compressed) 1.0 °
1982 - 2020 download



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