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DOI for Scientific and Technical Data
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_025 (for 0.25° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_050 (for 0.5° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_250 (for 2.5° resolution)
Title
GPCC Climatology Version 2020 (at 0.25°, 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°): Monthly
Land-Surface Precipitation Climatology for Every Month and the Total
Year from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data
Subtitle
Globally Gridded Monthly Totals
What's New
variable
interpolation_error (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
systematic_gauge_error (mean of the systematic gauge error) is available in the NetCDF file (for 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
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Citation
For 0.25° grid resolution:
Rustemeier Elke; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter;
Schneider, Udo; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Climatology Version 2020 at
0.25°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation Climatology for Every Month
and the Total Year from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data.
DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_025
For 0.5° grid resolution:
Rustemeier Elke; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter;
Schneider, Udo; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Climatology Version 2020 at
0.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation Climatology for Every Month and
the Total Year from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data.
DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_050
For 1.0° grid resolution:
Rustemeier Elke; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter;
Schneider, Udo; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Climatology Version 2020 at
1.0°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation Climatology for Every Month and
the Total Year from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data.
DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_100
For 2.5° grid resolution:
Rustemeier Elke; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter;
Schneider, Udo; Ziese, Markus (2020): GPCC Climatology Version 2020 at
2.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation Climatology for Every Month and
the Total Year from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data.
DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2020_250
Creators
Rustemeier Elke; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Schneider, Udo; Ziese, Markus
Publisher
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC,
http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst
Publication Year
2020
Summary
The new Global Precipitation Climatology is focussing on the period 1951-2000 and consists of data from ca. 85,000 stations.
The climatology comprises normals collected by WMO (CLINOs), delivered by the countries to GPCC or calculated from time-series
of monthly data (with at least 10 complete years of data) available in our data base. In case that time series of sufficient length
(more than 40 years) for the period 1951-2000 were not available from a specific station, then climatological normals have also been calculated
for 30-year reference periods (i.e. 1931-1960, 1941-1970, 1951-1980, 1961-1990, 1971-2000, 1981-2010 or 1991-2020) with at least 20 years of data.
If even this was not possible for a station, then normals have been calculated for shorter periods with at least 10 complete years of data.
This climatology is available on a regular latitude/longitude 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°.
This GPCC product has been developed as a background field, for superposition of an interpolated anomaly field according to the period of interest.
All other GPCC products utilize the background fields of the GPCC Climatology to grid the monthly data at the corresponding resolution with the anomaly interpolation method.
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 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.
Version
2020
Temporal Coverage
January - December
Spatial Coverage
Latitude: -90.0 to 90.0; Longitude: -180.0 to 180.0
Data Format(s)
gzip compressed NetCDF
format description
Tools
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
Datasize
min. 200 KByte - max. 10 MByte 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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