1. CHG Station Climatology Database (CSCD)
The Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation (CHIRP) with Stations (CHIRPS): Development and Validation
Pete Peterson1, Chris C Funk 2,1, Gregory J Husak1, Diego H Pedreros2, Martin Landsfeld1, James P Verdin2 and Shraddhanand Shukla1
1 Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States US Geological Survey
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, , San Francisco, CA, USA
chg.geog.ucsb.edu
Validation - How good is CHIRPS?
GPCC 2.5o, CHIRPS 0.05o GPCC ends in 2012, CHIRPS topped off in near-real time
Overview
Estimating precipitation variations in space and time is an important aspect of drought early warning and environmental monitoring. An evolving drier-than-normal season must be placed in historical context so that the severity of rainfall deficits may quickly be evaluated. To this end, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, working closely with collaborators at the University of California, Santa Barbara Climate Hazard Group (CHG), have developed a quasi-global (50oS-50oN, 180oE-180o W), 0.05o resolution, 1981 to near-present gridded precipitation time series: the Climate Hazard group InfraRed Precipitation with Station (CHIRPS) data archive. The primary time step is the pentad which is used to create 6-hourly, daily, dekad, monthly and 3-monthly precipitation products. Quick preliminary pentad and daily CHIRPS are available every pentad on the 2nd day of the following pentad. Final products for all time steps are produced after the 15th of the following month to allow for the acquisition of all available station data.
Trends
Independent stations
CHIRP
B1 IR coverage
CHPclim is the CHG Precipitation gridded 0.05o monthly climatology derived from station data.
Regress Cold Cloud Duration (CCD) to TRMM-V7 pentad precipitation at each pixel, for each month ( ) and use to calculate near real time precipitation (IRP) from CPC-IR (½ hourly). Apply to B1 IR data (3-hourly) from to extend IRP time series.
CHIRPS = CHIRP + Blended Stations
Citations
Funk, C., J. Michaelsen, and M. Marshall, 2012: Mapping recent decadal climate variations in precipitation and temperature across Eastern Africa and the Sahel. Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches, M. A. a. J. V. B. Wardlow, Ed., Taylor and Francis, 25 pages.
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Janowiak, J. E., R. J. Joyce, and Y. Yarosh, 2001: A real-time global half-hourly pixel-resolution infrared dataset and its applications. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82,
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Knapp, K. R., and Coauthors, 2011: Globally gridded satellite (GriSat) observations for climate studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 92,
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CHG Station Climatology Database (CSCD)
22 sources (global – regional - national)
198,000 stations (some duplicates)
500 million daily rainfall data since 1981
Another 500 million back to 1832
600 million daily temperature data since 1833
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Three worst seasonal (MAM) rainfall deficits for Horn of Africa