Interception is the process where rainfall is captured by the leaves. Part of this captured rainfall will evaporate again. The Interception (I) data component represents the evaporation of intercepted rainfall from the vegetation canopy. The value of each pixel represents the total annual interception for that specific year.
Data publication: 2020-01-01
Supplemental Information:
No data value: -9999
Unit: mm
Conversion factor: the pixel value in the downloaded data must be multiplied by 0.1
New dekadal data layers are released approximately 5 days after the end of a dekad. A higher quality version of the same data layer is uploaded after 6 dekads have passed. This final version of the dekadal dataset has a higher quality because gap filling and interpolation processes, where needed, have been based on more data observations. This implies that other temporal aggregations (monthly, seasonal, annual), and layers that depend on those, are updated as well. Practically this means that a final annual aggregation of the most recent full calendar year can only be produced after the end of February. Likewise, the final monthly aggregation of the most recent calendar months can only be produced 2 full months later.
Citation:
FAO 2018. WaPOR Database Methodology: Level 3. Remote Sensing for Water Productivity Technical Report: Methodology Series. Rome, FAO. 72 pages. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
Contact points:
Resource Contact: WaPOR
Metadata Contact: WaPOR
Data lineage:
See interception (I) by dekad for further information. The annual total is obtained by taking the I in mm/day, multiplying by the number of days in a dekad, and summing the dekads of each year.
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Online resources:
Interception (Kairouan, Tunisia - Annual)
Download data from WaPOR Website
