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GPCC - Global Precipitation Climatology Centre - Global Rainfall over land dataset (1951-2000)

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Updated 25/06/2025

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The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) dataset containing the global analysis of monthly precipitation on earths landsurface based on in situ raingauge data from 9,343 stations worldwide. Otherwise known as the VASClimO 50-Year Climatology (Ver1.0) with monthly gridded time series precipitation analysis data available for the period 1951-2000 with spatial resolutions of 1.0° x 1.0°. The GPCC is operated by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, National Meteorological Service of Germany). VASClimO is preferred for analysis of temporal climate variability, in particular the spatial distribution of climate change with respect to precipitation. The GPCC VASClimO product is an input to the IPCC 4AR. The CSIRO version of this dataset has had all years concatenated to form one file and has also been processed to be available as a climatology, anomaly, seasonal anomaly, and coefficient format.

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Field Value
Title GPCC - Global Precipitation Climatology Centre - Global Rainfall over land dataset (1951-2000)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/89c32060-d4fd-40dc-9c09-7ba1cdb57243
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Tim.Cowan@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1951 - 01/01/2000
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "GPCC - Global Precipitation Climatology Centre - Global Rainfall over land dataset (1951-2000)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/gpcc-global-precipitation-climatology-centre-global-rainfall-over-land-dataset-1951-2000