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DOI for Scientific and Technical Data
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MP_M_V4_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MP_M_V4_250 (for 2.5° resolution)
Title
GPCC Monitoring Product: Near Real-Time Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges based on SYNOP and CLIMAT data
Subtitle
Globally Gridded Monthly Totals
Citation
For 1.0° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Rudolf, Bruno; Ziese, Markus (2011): GPCC Monitoring Product: Near Real-Time Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges based on SYNOP and CLIMAT data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MP_M_V4_100;
http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MP_M_V4_100
For 2.5° grid resolution:
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Rudolf, Bruno; Ziese, Markus (2011): GPCC Monitoring Product: Near Real-Time Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges based on SYNOP and CLIMAT data. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MP_M_V4_250;
http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MP_M_V4_250
Creators
Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Rudolf, Bruno; Ziese, Markus
Publisher
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC,
http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst
Publication Year
2011
Summary
This is the GPCC Monitoring Product of monthly global land-surface precipitation based on the station database (SYNOP, CLIMAT) available via the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) at the time of analysis (2 months after end of an analysis month). This product contains the monthly totals on a regular latitude/longitude grid with a spatial resolution of 1.0° x 1.0° and 2.5° x 2.5°degrees. Interpolation is made on the anomalies from the GPCC Climatology V2011 in the corresponding resolutions (DOIs:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2011_100 and
http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/Clim_M_V2011_250). The temporal coverage of the dataset ranges from January 2007 until the month for which GTS data (SYNOP and CLIMAT) is available, i.e. 2 months after end of the analysis month due. The GPCC Monitoring Product is the in situ component to the satellite-gauge combined precipitation analyses of the Global Precipitation Climatology Product (GPCP) and the CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP). Moreover it supports regional climate monitoring and serves the land-surface complement to the Hamburg Ocean-Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite (HOAPS) data set.
General user recommendations
This GPCC product is recommended to be used for all applications requesting high quality gridded monthly precipitation analyses in near real-time. The user should note that the non-real-time GPCC Full Data Reanalysis product, updated in irregular time intervals after inclusion of non-real-time received and quality controlled national and regional precipitation data sets, is based on a much larger number of stations compared to GPCC's Monitoring product. Therefore the analysis sampling error of GPCC Full Data Reanalysis is in many regions much smaller than the sampling error of GPCC's Monitoring product. When interpreting applications and assessments based on GPCC's Monitoring product users should carefully take into account the number of stations available for a specific analysis grid in a specific month. Users should prefer the corresponding GPCC Full Data (DOIs:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V6_100 and
http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V6_250) or the temporarily homogenized GPCC products (
VASClimO V1.1, and its follower HOMPRA, DOI: 10.5072/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA/MONTHLY/V1 [not yet available]) for high quality gridded monthly precipitation analysis applications in non-real-time.
Version
4.0
Temporal Coverage
2007/01 - produced periodical; two months prior to present;
prior versions are available at
Monitoring Product Version 1 and 4
Spatial Coverage
Latitude: -90.0 to 90.0; Longitude: -180.0 to 180.0
Data Format
zipped ASCII
format description
Datasize
~ 600 KB (2.5 °) per zip archive
~ 3 MB (1.0 °) per zip 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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