Extreme precipitation: areas where maximum 1-day precipitation is above 50mm on average per year.
Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (50mm) were given a value of 1 (YES response)
Historical climate data are an ensemble of outputs from CMIP6 earth system models for the time period 1981-2010
Data publication: 2022-01-26
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Citation: Funk, Chris, Pete Peterson, Martin Landsfeld, Diego Pedreros, James Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, Gregory Husak, James Rowland, Laura Harrison, Andrew Hoell & Joel Michaelsen. "The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes". Scientific Data 2, 150066. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66 2015.
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