Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset. CHIRPS incorporates 0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. Precipitation anomalies expressed in mm which can be converted into volume for a specific area (1mm=1l/m² or 1mm=10m³/ha). The term "anomaly" means a departure from a reference value or long-term average. For the precipitation anomaly animation, the reference value is the average precipitation over the period 1970-1999. A positive anomaly value indicates that the observed precipitation was greater than the long-term average , while a negative anomaly indicates that the observed precipitation was less than the long-term average.
Approximately 5km (0.05°)
unit: "mm"
dataType: "Float32"
noDataValue: -9999
Data revision: 2018-10-24
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Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
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