Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Rainfall in Africa, 0.25 degrees, from 1998-2012.
This data set describes monthly rainfall distribution statistics over the whole African continent, including Madagascar. The rainfall estimates are taken from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data between 1998 and 2012. The data set provides gridded (0.25 x 0.25-degree) estimates of 14-year mean monthly rainfall total amount (mm), frequency (count), intensity (mm/hr), and duration (hrs) of rainfall, as well as Markov chain and gamma-distribution parameters.
To view complete documentation and access the data, visit the data set Web page at http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1263
Data Acknowledgements
- Data authors: Kaptue, A.T., N.P. Hanan, L. Prihodko, and J.A. Ramirez
- Data center: ORNL DAAC (http://daac.ornl.gov)
- Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS (http://earthdata.nasa.gov)
- Data Set DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1263
