All about DATASETS

• Description and Algorithms • Source• Spatial and temporal Resolutions• Time period covering

Rainfall Datasets

• APHRODITE : Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of Water Resources

• The datasets are created primarily with data obtained from a rain-gauge-observation network, precompiled datasets, and derived from global telecommunication system.

• http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip/• Sign-in with your e-mail and download the datasets.• Daily datasets from 1951-2007 with 0.25 and 0.50 lon-lat

resolution.

Domain of the current products APHRO_MA/ME/RU_V1003R1 and APHRO_JP_V1005. Red, black and blue dots show stations corresponding to original rain-gauge data individually collected from local organizations, derived from precompiled datasets, and derived from global telecommunication system reports, respectively.

Name Domain Resolution Period

Japan (JP) (Kamiguchi et al. 2010)

123°E-146°E, 24°N-46°N

0.05°,daily 1900-2009

Name Domain Resolution PeriodMonsoon Asia (MA) 60°E-150°E, 15°S-55°N 0.5° and

0.25°,daily

1951-2007Middle East (ME) 15°E-65°E, 25°N-45°N

Russia (RU) 15°E-165°W, 34°N-84°N

Yatagai, et al. 2009

Monthly climatology

Daily Rainfall Movie

Error Stats

• TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)• The datasets are created primarily with data

obtained from a rain-gauge-observation network, precompiled datasets, and derived from global telecommunication system.

• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/• Sign-in with your e-mail and download the datasets.• 3hrly, daily, and monthly datasets from 1998-2012

with 0.25 and 0.50 lon-lat resolution.

• TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)• The datasets are created primarily with data

obtained from a rain-gauge-observation network, precompiled datasets, and derived from global telecommunication system.

• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/• Sign-in with your e-mail and download the datasets.• 3hrly and daily datasets from 1998-2012 with 0.25

and 0.50 lon-lat resolution.

CMORPH: CPC Morphing technique for the production of global precipitation estimates

Joyce, R.J., J.E. Janowiak, P. A. Arkin and P. Xie, 2004: CMORPH: A Method that Produces Global Precipitation Estimates from Passive Microwave and Infrared Data at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution. J. Hydrometeorology, 5, 487-503.

Global Precipitation Analysis GPCP

• http://precip.gsfc.nasa.gov/• The datasets are created primarily with data

obtained from a rain-gauge-observation network, precompiled datasets, and derived from global telecommunication system.

• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/• Sign-in with your e-mail and download the datasets.• Monthly, Daily and pented datasets; from 1979-to-

present with 0.25 and 0.50 lon-lat resolution.

http://www.ecmwf.int/

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

The ECMWF Research Data for research use: Datas are available at surface as well as pressure levels. ECMWF ReAnalysis (ERA) ERA-40, ERA-Intrim, DEMETER, TIGGE (THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble), MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate) Re-analysis (2003-2010)ERA-Interim is current ECMWF reanalysis project following ERA-15 & 40.Data Archive ServicesSoftware ServicesThe ECMWF analysis and forecasting systemReal -Time ProductsTrainingAnnual SeminarWorkshops

Polar orbiting satellites in use are: NOAA:VTPR,TOVS,ATOVS, DMSP:SSM/I, ERS/SCATTEROMETER.Geostationary satellites in use are: DMSP, GOES, Meteosat.

Land surface temperature at 5.6km resolution from MODIS-Terra for July 2009 (left) and July 2010 (right). Land surface temperatures were considerably warmer in 2010 compared to 2009 in this region. Also note in these images of the 5.6 km resolution data how the colder mountain temperatures in the Alps and Carpathian Mountain Arc are clearly observed.