Mexican Daily Precipitation Data

This data set contains daily precipitation data from across Mexico. The data are from 1348 sites within Mexico covering the time period January 1989 to April 1999. In Version 2 of this dataset, the observation hours have all been set to missing or "99". According to the US data provider, Dr. Wayne Higgins, the observation time for the daily Mexican precip data was 8 AM local time for all data. With the complicating factors of a few Mexican states having daylight savings time for some of this period and there are two time zones in Mexico.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1999-04-30T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1999-04-30T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 30.00000
Bounding Box South Lat -30.00000
Bounding Box West Long -150.00000
Bounding Box East Long -30.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : pacmxpcp_Ver2.pdf
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format EOL/JOSS Precip Quality Control Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 38 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author Wayne Higgins
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2021-10-12T23:19:19
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/B5XX-QN4V-XE09
Alternate Identifier 15.108
Resource Version 2.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:03:04Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::15.108
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Wayne Higgins. (2021). Mexican Daily Precipitation Data. 2.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/B5XX-QN4V-XE09. Accessed 28 August 2025.

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