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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) NCEP-Global Forecast System (GFS) Precipitation Forecast Product

Description

The Global Forecast System (GFS) forecast precipitation data at 37.5km resolution is created at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center for the purpose of near real-time usage by the national and international relief agencies and the general public. The users of this data include the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (JAWF) and the national Meteorological Centers in Africa, Asia and South America. The data is disseminated in the binary format as well as in the form of shape and tiff files for use by the GIS community. This data has seven individual 24-hour accumulated precipitation amounts (in millimeters) corresponding to the seven forecast days and one for the grand total of accumulated 7day total precipitation (in millimeters). Thus, the represented forecast fields have 8 Geotiff files and 8 shape files. All these files are zipped into a single file (per day).

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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.

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