Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.68
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	4.01	4.03	3.70		3.18		0.419	1.70	1.80		0.469	0.375	0.713	0.925	0.572
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	4.41	4.41	3.68		3.47		0.674	1.77	1.44		0.380	0.360	0.773	0.957	0.566

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.55
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	4.01	4.00	2.49		2.79		1.53	2.34	0.589		0.119	0.211	0.934	0.893	0.473
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	3.34	3.31	2.55		2.81		0.777	1.55	0.741		0.323	0.331	0.901	0.928	0.563

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.45
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	3.06	3.06	2.44		1.92		0.587	1.44	1.01		0.386	0.435	0.858	0.957	0.614
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	3.20	3.20	2.45		2.47		0.671	1.45	1.14		0.375	0.435	0.846	0.894	0.597

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.34
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	1.62	1.62	1.34		1.42		0.284	0.642	0.858		0.384	0.285	0.883	0.971	0.562
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.52	1.52	1.34		1.37		0.201	0.638	1.10		0.465	0.280	0.856	0.983	0.573

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	7.12
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	9.18	9.19	7.24		6.13		1.50	2.80	1.60		0.411	0.492	0.767	0.983	0.629
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	8.00	8.02	7.23		6.08		-0.105	2.81	1.90		0.401	0.461	0.709	0.752	0.557

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.71
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	1.80	1.80	1.72		2.57		0.0978	0.574	1.32		0.446	0.527	0.818	0.970	0.658
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.72	1.73	1.71		2.56		0.0355	0.612	1.37		0.560	0.450	0.812	0.964	0.647

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.77
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	1.98	2.00	1.76		4.87		0.364	1.04	1.19		0.325	0.460	0.839	0.906	0.598
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.89	1.92	1.75		4.52		0.282	1.05	1.33		0.411	0.452	0.829	0.918	0.612

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	4.00
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	4.00	3.95	3.92		4.88		0.337	2.26	0.948		0.374	0.305	0.882	0.898	0.553
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	3.80	3.75	3.96		5.25		-0.0542	2.36	1.08		0.398	0.275	0.860	0.935	0.548

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.52
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	1.35	1.36	1.56		1.35		-0.238	0.599	1.51		0.384	0.397	0.804	0.721	0.540
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.31	1.32	1.52		1.05		-0.214	0.530	1.58		0.493	0.426	0.805	0.740	0.578

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.80
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	2.02	2.01	1.69		2.77		0.475	0.842	1.05		0.346	0.542	0.882	0.980	0.659
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.80	1.80	1.78		2.79		0.175	0.825	1.09		0.416	0.454	0.851	0.977	0.630

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.58
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	2.48	2.49	2.56		2.69		-0.0998	0.685	1.68		0.511	0.594	0.765	0.951	0.683
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	2.27	2.28	2.58		2.47		-0.347	0.850	1.56		0.450	0.476	0.772	0.959	0.627

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.30
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	2.41	2.41	2.28		3.37		0.256	1.16	1.38		0.382	0.478	0.802	0.946	0.617
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	2.41	2.41	2.28		3.65		0.215	1.11	1.45		0.452	0.461	0.795	0.945	0.623

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.446
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	0.569	0.571	0.447		0.624		0.139	0.441	1.77		0.573	0.617	0.726	0.949	0.696
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	0.471	0.473	0.442		0.770		0.0453	0.369	1.87		0.643	0.672	0.710	0.938	0.727

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.25
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	1.66	1.67	1.25		1.81		0.354	0.586	0.509		0.352	0.513	0.959	0.967	0.661
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.66	1.67	1.24		1.94		0.408	0.602	0.799		0.377	0.536	0.922	0.893	0.653

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.20
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	4.17	4.17	3.17		3.62		1.04	2.15	1.27		0.295	0.367	0.830	0.918	0.555
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	3.72	3.69	3.21		3.16		0.723	2.05	1.18		0.345	0.337	0.839	0.867	0.545

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.30
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	2.80	2.82	3.30		3.38		-0.402	0.908	1.34		0.355	0.541	0.797	0.920	0.631
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	2.63	2.65	3.30		3.36		-0.606	1.08	1.80		0.288	0.474	0.748	0.935	0.584

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	2.42
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	2.50	2.49	2.41		4.32		0.235	0.677	0.964		0.514	0.642	0.884	0.979	0.732
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	2.45	2.45	2.40		5.28		0.211	0.733	1.33		0.564	0.513	0.821	0.987	0.679

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.48
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	1.69	1.69	1.44		1.80		0.290	0.718	1.31		0.368	0.511	0.809	0.941	0.628
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	1.44	1.43	1.48		1.39		-0.00747	0.720	1.21		0.492	0.469	0.843	0.902	0.635

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	6.20
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	5.11	5.12	6.24		4.48		-1.09	2.92	0.736		0.199	0.480	0.924	0.696	0.556
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	6.53	6.54	6.21		4.84		0.370	2.39	0.864		0.465	0.484	0.911	0.650	0.599

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	3.46
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	2.78	2.80	3.47		3.18		-0.696	1.41	1.22		0.415	0.552	0.846	0.983	0.670
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	3.59	3.60	3.46		3.22		0.128	1.42	1.16		0.528	0.518	0.850	0.934	0.669

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [mm d-1]	Model Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [mm d-1]		Bias [mm d-1]	RMSE [mm d-1]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.79
b.e30_beta02.BLT1850.ne30_t232.104	[-]	3.66	3.66	1.77		1.47		1.78	2.50	1.17		0.143	0.297	0.831	0.622	0.438
f.e23_alpha17f.FLTHIST_ne30.roughtopo.099	[-]	3.31	3.31	1.77		2.15		1.39	2.14	0.996		0.267	0.309	0.874	0.575	0.467

Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest Temporally integrated period mean Temporally integrated period mean max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift score Temporally integrated period mean bias Temporally integrated period mean bias score Temporally integrated period mean rmse Temporally integrated period mean rmse score Spatially integrated regional mean cycle Spatially integrated regional mean detrended cycle Spatially integrated regional mean

  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