Historical Monthly Gridded Global Land Precipitation Climatology

A historic monthly gridded precipitation dataset for global land areas. This dataset contains monthly precipitation from station rain gauges which have been averaged for geographic boxes for January, 1900 through December, 1998. The data is available for both a 5 degree by 5 degree grid and a 2.5 degree latitude by 3.75 degree longitude grid, but values are only available over land.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1900-01-01
    End:  1998-12-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1900-01-01
Temporal Range End 1998-12-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 16.588 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Hulme, M.
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1997-10-15
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/92XP-XW03
Alternate Identifier d228000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:21:38Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d228000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Hulme, M.. (1997). Historical Monthly Gridded Global Land Precipitation Climatology. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/92XP-XW03. Accessed 12 October 2025.

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