2017 Data (Information)
CHIRPS Monthly Sum December 2017- Africa
The Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) data products provide a measure of precipitation in mm over land that incorporates both station and satellite information. This image contains the monthly sum of precipitation observations continent of Africa for December 2017. It is updated monthly.
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chirps-v2.0.2017.12.tif.gz application/gzip 3.65 MB Download File
More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network
- Published Here
- April 25, 2018
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Notes
Notes: Spatial resolution:
5000m
Region:
Continent Africa
Projection:
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000)
False easting: 0
False northing: 0
Central meridian: 20
Latitude of origin: 5
Datum: WGS 1984
Point of contact:
afsis.info@africasoils.net
Additional information can be found on Github https://github.com/AfSIS-at-CIESIN/RemoteSensing/tree/Geospatial/CHIRPS
== PRODUCED BY ==
Climate Hazards Group
Department of Geography
University of California at Santa Barbara
In collaboration with:
The USGS Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)
The current best publication of record for CHIRPS is: Funk, Chris, Pete Peterson, Martin Landsfeld, Diego Pedreros, James Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, Gregory Husak, James Rowland, Laura Harrison, Andrew Hoell & Joel Michaelsen.
"The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes". Scientific Data 2, 150066. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66 2015.