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Hydrology, Soils, & Topography Data
The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), which is operated by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (National Meteorological Service of Germany), is a component of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) with the main emphasis on the treatment of the global in-situ observations. The GPCC simultaneously contributes to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and other international research and climate monitoring projects.
This rain gauge-only data set was acquired from GPCC and resampled to 0.5 degree gridboxes for use in the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Initiative II.
The GPCC collects precipitation data which are locally observed at rain gauge stations and distributed as CLIMAT and SYNOP reports via the Global Telecommunication System of the World Weather Watch (GTS) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Centre acquires additional monthly precipitation data from meteorological and hydrological networks which are operated by national services.
Data Provider: GPCC
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The files have been compressed using the PKZip program. The uncompressed files contain space-delimited ASCII text on a half-degree grid (720 values per line and 360 lines), or ASCII text on a 1-degree grid (360 values per line and 180 lines). Each line is terminated by a newline character. The data are structured so that the upperleft corner of the first pixel is located at 90 North latitude and 180 West longitude.
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Revision Date: May 27, 2004