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Description

An historical monthly precipitation dataset for global land areas from 1900 to 1996, gridded at two different resolutions (2.5 degrees latitude by 3.75 degrees longitude and 5 degrees latitude/longitude).

Product Summary

Platforms
NOT APPLICABLE
Instruments
NOT APPLICABLE
Projects
Climate
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1900-01-01 to 1999-01-01
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2776827920-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
2
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Precipitation Amount

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Hulme, M. (1999). Global Monthly Precipitation, 1900-1999 (Hulme) (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/417 Date Accessed: 2026-08-09

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Warm Season Rainfall Variability over the U.S. Great Plains in Observations, NCEP and ERA-40 Reanalyses, and NCAR and NASA Atmospheric Model Simulations. Ruiz-Barradas, Alfredo, Nigam, Sumant Precipitation Amount
Observational Evidence of Increases in Freshwater Inflow to the Arctic Ocean Dyurgerov, Mark B., Carter, Carissa L. Precipitation Amount
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