CHIRPS - 4.8km - Pentad¶
Description¶
The Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 35+ year quasi-global rainfall data set. Spanning 50 degS-50 degN (and all longitudes) and ranging from 1981 to near-present, CHIRPS incorporates an in-house climatology, CHPclim, 0.05 deg resolution satellite imagery, and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. CHIRPS is produced by the Climate Hazards Center at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Climate Engine details¶
- Dataset type
- Climate/Hydrology
- Climate Engine ID
- CHIRPS_PENTAD
- Documentation
- https://support.climateengine.org/article/53-chirps
Dataset details¶
- Scale
- 4.8km
- Frequency
- Pentad
- Coverage
- Global
- Start year
- 1981
- End year
- Present
Earth Engine collection details¶
- Earth Engine asset
- UCSB-CHG/CHIRPS/PENTAD
- Earth Engine asset URL
- https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/UCSB-CHG_CHIRPS_PENTAD
- Earth Engine source catalog
- Earth Engine Catalog
Variables¶
API variable docs: #chirps-pentad
| Name | Units |
|---|---|
| Precipitation | mm |
| Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) | N/A |
References¶
- Funk, C.C., Peterson, P.J., Landsfeld, M.F., Pedreros, D.H., Verdin, J.P., Rowland, J.D., Romero, B.E., Husak, G.J., Michaelsen, J.C., and Verdin, A.P., 2014, A quasi-global precipitation time series for drought monitoring: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 832, 4 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds832
Website: https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps
Terms of use¶
To the extent possible under the law, Pete Peterson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to CHIRPS. CHIRPS data is in the public domain as registered with Creative Commons. This work is published from: the United States.