Monthly Precipitation from CRU

Hulme Monthly Precipitation from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

Precipitation data made available by Mike Hulme of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is available here in netCDF.

SOURCE:CRU
	2.5 x 3.75 degree grid (land only)
        5.0 x 5.0 degree grid (land only)

FORMAT: netCDF

GRID:   2.5 x 3.75 degree grid (land only;ocean values set to msg)
        5.0 x 5.0 degree grid (land only;ocean values set to msg)


LEVELS: Surface

FIELDS: Description                     Name    Units   Levels
        -------------------------------------------------------
	Precipitation			Prc     	mm  	surface
	Precipitation			PrcAnn     	mm  	surface

TIMES:  monthly, annual climatology

Current holdings: 1900 - 1998
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/CA/CRU/Prc23_19001998.nc
/CA/CRU/Prc55_19001998.nc

Get more information about this data set from the Informed Guide to Climate Data Sets.

RELEVANT REFERENCES:

Hulme,M. (1992) A 1951-80 global land precipitation climatology for the evaluation of General Circulation Models Climate Dynamics, 7, 57-72

Hulme,M. (1994) Validation of large-scale precipitation fields in General Circulation Models pp.387-406 in, Global precipitations and climate change (eds.) Desbois,M. and Desalmand,F., NATO ASI Series, Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 466pp.

Hulme,M., Osborn,T.J. and T.C.Johns (1998) Precipitation sensitivity to global warming: Comparison of observations with HadCM2 simulations Geophys. Res. Letts., 25, 3379-3382.

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