ISLSCP II Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) Monthly Precipitation

Description

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 grid boxes 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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/995
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/gpcc_precip_monthly_xdeg/comp/1_gpcc_precip_monthly_doc.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F995
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/995_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=995
21 The THREDDS location for this Collection. https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalog/ornldaac/995/catalog.html
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/gpcc_precip_monthly_xdeg/comp/0_gpcc_precip_month_readme.txt
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ISLSCP_II/guides/gpcc_precip_monthly_xdeg.html
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/islscp_ii/hydrology_soils/gpcc_precip_monthly_xdeg/

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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