CRU TS Version 4
From variable 3.5
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with total precipitation available.
- reference Harris et al. (2020)
- source
- CRU/University of East Anglia
- data type
- Gridded observations
- spatial domain
- Global
- spatial resolution
- 0.5 x 0.5
- temporal coverage
- 1901-2015
- time step
- Monthly
- data format
- ASCII; NetCDF
- comments
- It is derived by the interpolation of monthly climate anomalies from weather station observations, using angular-distance weighting. It is using the 1961–1990 period as reference for the anomalies. The resulting gridded anomalies are converted to actual values. CRU TS4.00 is a full release, differing in methodology from the v3.24.01. release. It provides values and anomalies for total precipitation.