Daily Precipitation Analysis over South America (2000 -- 2002)

SOURCE: 
 Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Retrospective Analysis:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/realtime/retro.html

FORMAT: NetCDF

GRID:    1 x 1 degree grid

         Domain: (-60E to 16E, -90N to -29N )

LEVELS: Surface

FIELDS: Description                     Name 	Units       Levels
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	daily accumulated Precipitation	Precip	mm/day  surface

TIMES: 1 value per day; 28, 29, 30, or 31 values per month.

MSS Directory: /CA/PRECIP/CPC/SA

Filename: sa.precip.YYYYMM.nc, where mmm is the 3-character month,YYYY is the 4-digit year,

   e.g. sa.precip.200004.nc contains the precipitation data for April 2000 (30 values)

Current holdings: Jan 2000 -- Dec 2002
Related Data:U.S. Hourly Precipitation (HPD) Analysis (1948-March, 1999)
U.S. Daily Precipitation Analysis (Jan 1996-Dec 2002)
U.S. Unified Daily Precipitation Analysis(1948-1997)
US_Mexico Daily Precipitation Analysis(1948-1999)
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