The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

Funk, Chris; Peterson, Pete; F. Landsfeld, M.; Pedreros, Diego; P. Verdin, J.; Shukla, Shraddhanand; J. Husak, G.; Rowland, James; Harrison, L.; Hoell, Andrew; Michaelsen, Joel

doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66

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The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

Published in Scientific Data • Dec 7, 2015

Authors:

Chris Funk

Pete Peterson

M. F. Landsfeld

Abstract

The Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset builds on previous approaches to 'smart' interpolation techniques and high resolution, long period of record precipitation estimates based on infrared Cold Cloud Duration (CCD) observations. The algorithm i) is built aro...

Subject

Environmental science

Precipitation

Meteorology

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