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Wet Day Frequency (Global - Mean Monthly - ~10km)

Grid with average Wet Day Frequency (rain days per month) for the period 1961-1990. This dataset is constructed from observations, backed with synthetic data derived from precipitation.


Source: 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 (Creation)
2002-01-01
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

This dataset is especially useful to perform GIS-based water balance model calculations, i.e. GlobWat.

Status
Completed
Originator
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - Jippe Hoogeveen (Water Resources Officer)
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme
  • precipitation

  • rainfall

  • climate

  • meteorology

  • AQUAMAPS_globwat

  • AQUAMAPS_climate

  • HiH_Precipitation

  • Tag_AQUASTAT

Place
  • World

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Copyright
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo ). In addition to this license, some database specific terms of use are listed: Terms of Use of Datasets.

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
5  arc/minutes
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
1961-01-01
End date
1990-12-31
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Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326 - WGS84
Distribution format
  • ASCII-grid ( )

OnLine resource
Online link to the 'The CRU CL 2.0'- website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Download - Global map of rain days per month - 5 arc min (12 ASCII-grids) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
AQUAMAPS:wet ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )

Global map of rain days per month

File identifier
970b35af-c507-480b-b62b-818ddec19783 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2021-12-23T08:58:40
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Point of contact
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - AQUASTAT ( )
Rome , Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

AQUAMAPS_climate AQUAMAPS_globwat HiH_Precipitation Tag_AQUASTAT climate meteorology precipitation rainfall

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