10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_025 (for 0.25° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_050 (for 0.5° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_250 (for 2.5° resolution)


GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2020 (at 0.25° at 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°): Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data Globally Gridded Monthly Totals 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

variable interpolation_error (YAMAMOTO) is available in the NetCDF file (for 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5° resolution)
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]

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 2019.
New NetCDF file for gridsize of 0.25° For 0.25° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2020 at 0.25°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_025

For 0.5° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2020 at 0.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_050

For 1.0° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2020 at 1.0°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_100

For 2.5° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Full Data Monthly Product Version 2020 at 2.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2020_250
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Rustemeier, Elke; Ziese, Markus Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC, http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst 2020 This is the centennial GPCC Full Data Monthly Product of monthly global land-surface precipitation based on the ~85,000 stations world-wide that feature record durations of 10 years or longer. The data coverage per month varies from ~15,000 (before 6000) 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 V2020 in the corresponding resolution (DOIs: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2020_025, 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2020_050, 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2020_100, and 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2020_250). The temporal coverage of the dataset ranges from January 1891 until December 2019.

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.
"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
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., 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 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. 2020 1891/01 - 2019/12 Latitude: -90.0 to 90.0; Longitude: -180.0 to 180.0 gzip compressed NetCDF format description List of Software for Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data show list
Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer Panoply Home
Climate Data Operators CDO CDO Home
min. 20 MB - max. 300 MB per gzip archive (10 years per archive) 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
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NetCDF Format (gzip compressed)	0.25 ° (.gz ~ 300 MByte)	0.5 ° (.gz ~ 70 MByte)	1.0 ° (.gz ~ 20 MByte)	2.5 ° (.gz ~ 5 MByte)
precipitation, number of stations, number of infilled stations, interpolation error, interpolation error (infilled), difference new - old interpolation method	download	download	download	download
MD5 Checksum	readme_md5_025.txt	readme_md5_05.txt	readme_md5_10.txt	readme_md5_25.txt