Date (Publication)

2016-01-14

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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36

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doi: / 10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36

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Manz, B., Buytaert, W., Zulkafli, Z., Lavado, W., Willems, B., Robles, L.A., Rodríguez Sánchez, J.-. (2016). High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36

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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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© NERC/ Bastian Manz

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Manz, B., Buytaert, W., Zulkafli, Z., Lavado, W., Willems, B., Robles, L.A., Rodríguez Sánchez, J.-. (2016). High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36

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grid Grid

Distance

1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

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Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date

1981-01-01

End date

2014-12-31

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84

Distribution format

• TIFF ()

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TRMM Precipitation Radar data, product 2A25, was obtained from NASA for the period Jan 1998 to Oct 2014. Individual orbital scans were converted into time-series and re-projected onto a regular UTM grid (5 km) in R (statistical software), which allowed averaging over time to obtain mean monthly and annual climatological rainfall fields (regular raster grids) from the TPR (in R). Monthly or daily rain gauge time-series for the period 1981-2010 were obtained from IDEAM (Colombia), INAMHI (Ecuador), SENAMHI (Peru), SENAMHI (Bolivia) and NOAA (USA) and mean monthly and annual climatological values were determined for every gauge using a bespoke R script. Gauging station coordinates are re-projected into UTM (in R). Satellite-gauge merging as described in the supporting information was conducted using bespoke R scripts. Following generation of the final merged climatological precipitation fields (regular raster grids) these are converted from R to GeoTIFF (.tif).

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2025-03-25T13:36:24

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