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DOI for Scientific and Technical Data
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_025 (for 0.25° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_050 (for 0.5° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_250 (for 2.5° resolution)
Title
GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2018 (at 0.25° at 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°): Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data
Subtitle
Globally Gridded Monthly Totals
What's New
The GPCC interpolation method has been 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
-> Product Info
new variable
interpolation_error (YAMAMOTO) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°) resolution
new variable
interpolation_error_infilled (YAMAMOTO) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°) resolution
[Yamamoto, J.K. An Alternative Measure of the Reliability of Ordinary Kriging Estimates Mathematical Geology, Springer, 2000, 32, 489-509]
new variable
diff_new_old_method (the difference of new minus old interpolation method) is available in the NetCDF file (for 025°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°) resolution
variable
precip (precipitation per grid) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°) resolution
variable
numgauge (number of stations per grid) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°) resolution
variable
infilled_numgauge (number of infilled stations per grid) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°) resolution
The temporal coverage of the dataset ranges from January 1891 until December 2016.
New NetCDF file for gridsize of 0.25°
Citation
For 0.25° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Ziese, Markus (2018): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2018 at 0.25°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_025
For 0.5° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Ziese, Markus (2018): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2018 at 0.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_050
For 1.0° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Ziese, Markus (2018): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2018 at 1.0°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_100
For 2.5° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Ziese, Markus (2018): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2018 at 2.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_250
Creators
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Ziese, Markus
Publisher
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC,
http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst
Publication Year
2018
Summary
This is the centennial GPCC Full Data Monthly Product of monthly global land-surface precipitation based on the ~80,000 stations world-wide that feature record durations of 10 years or longer.
The data coverage per month varies from ~6,000 (before 1900) to more than 50,000 stations. The Full Data Monthly Product will be updated at irregular time intervals subsequent to significant data base improvements.
This product contains the monthly totals on a regular grid with a spatial resolution of 0.25° x 0.25°, 0.5° x 0.5°, 1.0° x 1.0°, and 2.5° x 2.5° latitude by longitude.
Precipitation anomalies at the stations are interpolated and then superimposed on the GPCC Climatology V2018 in the corresponding resolution
(DOIs:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2018_025,
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2018_050,
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2018_100, and
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2018_250).
The temporal coverage of the dataset ranges from January 1891 until December 2016.
The GPCC Full Data Monthly Product is the most accurate in situ precipitation reanalysis data set of GPCC. Moreover it supports regional climate monitoring, model validation, climate variability analysis and water resources assessment studies.
Peer-reviewed Articles
"Global gridded precipitation over land: a description of the new GPCC First Guess Daily product"
K. Schamm (1,2) M. Ziese (1), A. Becker (1), P. Finger (1), A. Meyer-Christoffer (1), U. Schneider (1), M. Schröder (2), and P. Stender (1)
(1) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(2) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Satellite Based Climate Monitoring, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
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, 2017:
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
in Atmosphere, 8 (3), 52, 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
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
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
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
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 (1), U. Schneider (1), A. Meyer-Christoffer (1), K. Schamm (1), J. Vido (1,*), P. Finger (1), P. Bissoli (2), S.Pietsch (3), A. Becker(1)
(1) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(2) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Regionale Klimaüberwachung, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(3) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Agrarmeteorologische Beratung, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(*) now at: Technical University Zvolen, Department of Natural Environment, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
in Earth System Science Data, DOI:
10.5194/essd-6-285-2014
General user recommendations
Users are referred to following gridded Global Precipitation Climate Centre (GPCC) products:
GPCC Climatology 1951-2000 (
GPCC_Clim) with high representativeness, for application as a reference, and for utilization of the anomaly interpolation method.
GPCC Full Data Monthly Product (
GPCC_FD) 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., trend and teleconnection analyses.
GPCC Full Data Daily Product (
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 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.
Version
2018
Temporal Coverage
1891/01 - 2016/12
Spatial Coverage
Latitude: -90.0 to 90.0; Longitude: -180.0 to 180.0
Data Format
gzip compressed NetCDF
format description
Tools
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Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer
Panoply Home
Climate Data Operators CDO
CDO Home
Datasize
min. 60 MB - max. 3.4 GB per gzip archive
Contact
Dr. Andreas Becker, 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 / 8062-2900
Fax: + 49 (0)69 / 8062-3987
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