Bronze level automatically awarded US beta

This data has achieved Bronze level on 22 October 2015 which means this data makes a great start at the basics of publishing open data.

Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Africa Rainfall Climatology Version 2.0 (ARC2)

Description

As of 2012, a new gridded, daily 30 year precipitation estimation dataset centered over Africa at 0.1? spatial resolution has been developed. The Africa Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2) is a revision of the first version of the ARC and is consistent with the operational Rainfall Estimation, version 2, algorithm (RFE2). ARC2 uses inputs from two sources: 1) 3-hourly geostationary infrared (IR) data centered over Africa from the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and 2) quality controlled Global Telecommunication System (GTS) gauge observations reporting 24-hour rainfall accumulations over Africa. The main difference between with ARC2 resides in the recalibration of all Meteosat First Generation (MFG) IR data (1983-2005). Validation and inter-comparison results show that ARC2 is a major improvement over ARC1, and is consistent with other long-term historical datasets such as Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) and Climate Prediction Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP).

General Information

Legal Information

This dataset has been created by US Government which means it is required to be in the public domain. However US copyright law only allows open access by US citizens, we have assumed the data is equivalently licensed as CC0 for the rest of the world as this is in the spirit of the US Government’s Open Data policy.

  • The rights statement is at

    http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/climate-prediction-center-cpc-africa-rainfall-climatology-version-2-0-arc2 Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Outside the US, this data is available under

    Creative Commons CCZero Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • There are

    yes, and the rights are all held by the same person or organisation Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The content is available under

    Creative Commons CCZero Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data contains

    no data about individuals Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

Practical Information

  • The data appears in this collection

    http://catalog.data.gov/organization/noaa-gov Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data changes

    at least daily Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The data is

    backed up offsite Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

Technical Information

Social Information

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    title Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    description Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    identifier Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    landing page Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    release frequency Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    publisher Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    distribution(s) Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    release date Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    modification date Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    temporal coverage Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    spatial/geographical coverage Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    release date Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    a URL to access the data Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    a URL to download the dataset Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Find out how to contact someone about this data at

    http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/climate-prediction-center-cpc-africa-rainfall-climatology-version-2-0-arc2 Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Find out how to suggest improvements to publication at

    http://www.data.gov/issue/?media_url=http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/climate-prediction-center-cpc-africa-rainfall-climatology-version-2-0-arc2 Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know