Monthly precipitation in mm at 1 km resolution based on SM2RAIN-ASCAT 2007-2018, IMERGE, CHELSA Climate and WorldClim

• Main Author: Hengl, Tomislav
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: precipitation; global; LandGIS; Huffman; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3256275; https://zenodo.org/record/3256275

Monthly precipitation in mm at 1 km resolution based on SM2RAIN-ASCAT 2007-2018 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2615278). Downscaled to 1 km resolution using gdalwarp (cubic splines) and combined with WorldClim (http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/worldclim/v2.0/), CHELSA Climate (https://www.wsl.ch/lud/chelsa/data/climatologies/prec/) and IMERGE monthly (ftp://jsimpson.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/NRTPUB/imerg/gis/ see files e.g. "3B-MO-L.GIS.IMERG.20180601.V05B.tif") products. Final values are estimated as a weighted average between the four precipitation data sources; 3x higher weight is given to the SM2RAIN-ASCAT data since it assumed to be the most accurate. Processing steps are available here . Antarctica is not included. To access and visualize maps use: https://openlandmap.org If you discover a bug, artifact or inconsistency in the maps, or if you have a question please use some of the following channels: Technical issues and questions about the code: https://gitlab.com/openlandmap/global-layers/issues General questions and comments: https://disqus.com/home/forums/landgis/ All files internally compressed using "COMPRESS=DEFLATE" creation option in GDAL. File naming convention: clm = theme: climate, precipitation = variable: precipitation, sm2rain.oct = determination method: SM2RAIN-ASCAT long-term average values for October, m = mean value, 1km = spatial resolution / block support: 1 km, s0..0cm = vertical reference: land surface, 2007..2018 = time reference: from 2007 to 2018, v0.2 = version number: 0.2, : {"references": ["Brocca, L., Filippucci, P., Hahn, S., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Camici, S., Sch\u00fcller, L., Bojkov, B., Wagner, W. (2019). SM2RAIN-ASCAT (2007-2018): global daily satellite rainfall from ASCAT soil moisture. submitted to Earth System Science Data.", "Karger, D. N., Conrad, O., B\u00f6hner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R. W., ... & Kessler, M. (2017). Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas. Scientific data, 4, 170122.", "Huffman, G. J., D. T. Bolvin, D. Braithwaite, K. Hsu, R. Joyce, and P. Xie, (2014). NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG), Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD). https://storm- pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/storm/IMERG_ATBD_V4.pdf", "Fick, S. E., & Hijmans, R. J. (2017). WorldClim 2: new 1\u2010km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology, 37(12), 4302-4315."]}