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Announcement: New Daily Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Asia

Last modified October 21, 2009 08:12

Let us introduce you our new DAILY GRIDDED PRECIPITAION dataset.
The daily gridded precipitation dataset for 1961-2004 was created by collecting rain gauge observation data across Asia through the activity of the Asian Precipitation - Highly Resolved Observation Data Integration Towards the Evaluation of Water Resources (APHRODITE) project supported by the Global Environment Research Fund, Ministry of Environment, Japan.

Our product (APHRO_V0902) for Monsoon Asia, Russia and Middle East (on 0.5deg x 0.5 deg and 0.25deg x 0.25 deg grids) are available at our web-site

http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip

The product is the only long-term (1961 onward) continental-scale daily product that contains a dense network of rain gauges data for Asia including the Himalayas and mountainous areas in the Middle East. The product contributes to studies of climate change, verification of numerical model simulation and more.

Detailed feature and algorithm of the product are shown in the following paper:
Yatagai, A., O. Arakawa, K. Kamiguchi, H. Kawamoto, M. I. Nodzu and A. Hamada (2009): A 44-year daily precipitation dataset for Asia based on dense network of rain gauges, SOLA, 5, 137-140, doi:10.2151/sola.2009-035
The paper is available at http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sola/5/0/5_137/_article

You can download the product for free-of-charge from our website: http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip/download/index.html

Please "sign up" at first then you can access the data.
Some known errata are listed at http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip/data/Errata_V0902.txt

We will be happy to receive information on applications and publications using its products. If you have questions or feedback, please contact us at precinfo@chikyu.ac.jp

Sincerely yours,

Akiyo

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Akiyo Yatagai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
457-4 Kamigamo-Motoyama,
Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan

Tel:+81-75-707-2204
Fax:+81-75-707-2506
Email: akiyo@chikyu.ac.jp

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