Global map of monthly coefficient of variation of precipitation

Grids with monthly values of coefficient of variation of precipitation for the period 1961-1990, at 5 arc min.

Based on: New, M., Lister, D., Hulme, M. and Makin, I., 2002: A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas. Climate Research 21:1-25

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Date (Publication)
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

This dataset is especially useful to perform GIS-based water balance model calculations, i.e. GlobWat.
Status
On going
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme

  • rainfall

  • climate

  • meteorology

  • AQUAMAPS_globwat

  • HiH_Precipitation

  • Tag_AQUASTAT
Place

  • World
Access constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Number of dimensions
3
Dimension name
Row
Resolution
5  arc minutes
Dimension name
Column
Dimension name
Vertical
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
OnLine resource
Online link to the 'The CRU CL 2.0'- website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
GlobWat-Input_cov.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Global map of precipitation CV per month - GlobWat input, 5 arc min, 12 ASCII-grids

OnLine resource
COV ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-capabilities )
Hierarchy level
Dataset
File identifier
29666536-962b-45ef-8910-c44476f334f2 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2024-07-23T14:14:04
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Point of contact
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - AQUASTAT ( )
 
 

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Keywords

AQUAMAPS_globwat HiH_Precipitation Tag_AQUASTAT climate meteorology rainfall

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