High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes
A set of 130 digital precipitation maps of the tropical Andes, covering Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at a 5km resolution. The maps represent different realizations of mean precipitation totals of the period 1981-2010 using different satellite-gauge merging methods. The work draws on a large database of 723 rain gauges and the full 5km Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (TPR) record from 1998 to 2014. Each map is approximately 1MB Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-01-14
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
- Other citation details
- Manz, B., Buytaert, W., Zulkafli, Z., Lavado, W., Willems, B., Robles L. A., Rodríguez Sánchez, J.-P. (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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- © 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.-P. (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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- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1981-01-01
- End date
- 2014-12-31
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- WGS 84
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- 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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- 74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36 XML
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- EnglishEnglish
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- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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- dataset Dataset
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- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-29T16:37:48
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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