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Spatially integrated regional mean

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  Title:
GPCP Version 2.3 Combined Precipitation Dataset (Final)

  Version:
2.3

  Institutions:
NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA
ESSIC/CICS, University of Maryland, USA

  Source:
GPCC gauge analysis to bias correct satellite estimates over land and merge with satellite based on sampling

  History:
2019-04-18: downloaded source from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcp.html
2019-05-09: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-pr-gpcp.py

  References:
Adler, R.F., G.J. Huffman, A. Chang, R. Ferraro, P. Xie, J. Janowiak, B. Rudolf, U. Schneider, S. Curtis, D. Bolvin, A. Gruber, J. Susskind, P. Arkin (2003), The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979 - Present), J. Hydrometeor., 4(6), 1147-1167
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  Comments:
time_period: 1979-01 through 2018-12
original_temporal_resolution: monthly
original_spatial_resolution: 2.5x2.5 degree
original_units: mm/day
final_temporal_resolution: monthly
final_spatial_resolution: 0.5x0.5 degree
final_units: kg/m2/s

  Convention:
CF-1.7