Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS)
is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset. CHIRPS incorporates
0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data
to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal
drought monitoring.
Bands
Pixel Size5566 meters
Bands
Name
Units
Min
Max
Pixel Size
Description
precipitation
mm/pentad
0*
1072.43*
meters
Precipitation
* estimated min or max value
Image Properties
Image Properties
Name
Type
Description
month
DOUBLE
Month
pentad
DOUBLE
Pentad
year
DOUBLE
Year
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
This datasets are in the public domain. To the extent possible under law,Pete Petersonhas waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
Climate Hazards Center Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS).
Citations
Citations:
Funk, Chris, Pete Peterson, Martin Landsfeld, Diego Pedreros, James
Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, Gregory Husak, James Rowland, Laura Harrison,
Andrew Hoell & Joel Michaelsen. "The climate hazards infrared precipitation
with stations-a new environmental record for monitoring extremes".
Scientific Data 2, 150066.doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.662015.
Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset. CHIRPS incorporates 0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring.
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