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== Geometry ==
== About ==
 
This is the predecessor to the ds502.1 version, and contains for each pixel, two values. Once is the CMorph Precipitation (called CPC), and the other is Merged Microwave precipitation. They are available as binary files, and NetCDF - for universal simplicity, I'll be working with the binary version.
 
== Getting Access ==
 
Sign up at http://rda.ucar.edu for free user account. You can then browse through all their data, tick boxes for what you want, and download a perl script that will then download your data. Edit the perl script so that it knows your password, and run it with something like '''perl download.pl'''. I use Strawberry Perl. You'll also need wget.exe in the same folder. Note that on 2015/10/28, the filename convention changed.
 
== Data Details ==


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! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Latitude range of first pixel
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Latitude range of first pixel
| style="text-align:left;" | 59.75ºN - 60.0ºN
| style="text-align:left;" | 59.75ºN - 60.0ºN
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Data 1 / units:
| style="text-align:left;" | CPC - Estimated precipitation (mm per hour)
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Data 2 / units:
| style="text-align:left;" | COMB - Merged Microwave precipitation (mm per hour)
|}


== File Format ==
The binary files is ordered in blocks for each 3-hourly reading. Each block is a 1440x480 grid of 4-byte floats, MSB-first (i.e. it reads trivially into Java, but you'll need to flip the byte order for LSB-first languages like C). The ordering of the grid starts at the Northern-Western most point, and then moves East first, repeating for each latitude.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col" | Record 1
| style="text-align:left;" | COMB
| style="text-align:left;" | 0000-0300hrs
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Record 2
| style="text-align:left;" | CPC
| style="text-align:left;" | 0000-0300hrs
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col" | Record 3
| style="text-align:left;" | COMB
| style="text-align:left;" | 0300-0600hrs
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Record 4
| style="text-align:left;" | CPC
| style="text-align:left;" | 0300-0600hrs
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| ...
| style="text-align:left;" | ...
| style="text-align:left;" | ...
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Record 15
| style="text-align:left;" | COMB
| style="text-align:left;" | 2100-2400hrs
|-
! style="text-align:right;" scope="col"| Record 16
| style="text-align:left;" | CPC
| style="text-align:left;" | 2100-2400hrs
|}
|}
== Citation ==
Climate Prediction Center/National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Weather Service/NOAA/U.S. Department of Commerce. 2011, updated daily. NOAA CPC Morphing Technique (CMORPH) Global Precipitation Analyses. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6CZ356W. Accessed† dd mmm yyyy.

Revision as of 14:21, 9 February 2017

About

This is the predecessor to the ds502.1 version, and contains for each pixel, two values. Once is the CMorph Precipitation (called CPC), and the other is Merged Microwave precipitation. They are available as binary files, and NetCDF - for universal simplicity, I'll be working with the binary version.

Getting Access

Sign up at http://rda.ucar.edu for free user account. You can then browse through all their data, tick boxes for what you want, and download a perl script that will then download your data. Edit the perl script so that it knows your password, and run it with something like perl download.pl. I use Strawberry Perl. You'll also need wget.exe in the same folder. Note that on 2015/10/28, the filename convention changed.

Data Details

Pixel resolution 1440 x 480
Geographical resolution 0.25º x 0.25º
Longitude range of first pixel 0.0ºE - 0.25ºE
Latitude range of first pixel 59.75ºN - 60.0ºN
Data 1 / units: CPC - Estimated precipitation (mm per hour)
Data 2 / units: COMB - Merged Microwave precipitation (mm per hour)

File Format

The binary files is ordered in blocks for each 3-hourly reading. Each block is a 1440x480 grid of 4-byte floats, MSB-first (i.e. it reads trivially into Java, but you'll need to flip the byte order for LSB-first languages like C). The ordering of the grid starts at the Northern-Western most point, and then moves East first, repeating for each latitude.

Record 1 COMB 0000-0300hrs
Record 2 CPC 0000-0300hrs
Record 3 COMB 0300-0600hrs
Record 4 CPC 0300-0600hrs
... ... ...
Record 15 COMB 2100-2400hrs
Record 16 CPC 2100-2400hrs


Citation

Climate Prediction Center/National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Weather Service/NOAA/U.S. Department of Commerce. 2011, updated daily. NOAA CPC Morphing Technique (CMORPH) Global Precipitation Analyses. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6CZ356W. Accessed† dd mmm yyyy.