Identification

Title

GPCP Version 2.3 Monthly Analysis Product

Alternative title(s)

d728004

Abstract

NOTE: This dataset has been superseded by the official GPCP version 2.3 monthly precipitation produced under the NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Program for satellites, which is available in RDA dataset ds728.6 [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds728.6/]. Users are advised to transition to this updated dataset. This dataset contains Version 2.3 of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Analysis Product. The data are monthly analyses defined on a global 2.5 degree by 2.5 degree longitude/latitude grid and cover the period January 1979 to (delayed) present.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d728004/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d728004/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

TIROS > Television Infrared Observation Satellite

DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

GOES > NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

GMS > Japan Geostationary Meteorological Satellite

METEOSAT > Meteosat Operational Programme

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

TOVS > TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

SSM/I > Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

GPCC > Global Precipitation Climatology Centre

GPCP > Global Precipitation Climatology Project

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1979-01-01

End position

2020-07-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-01-23

Frequency of update

monthly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-02-23T17:49:04Z

Metadata language