Essential Climate Variables: Sum of monthly precipitation (Copernicus Climate Data Store)

Overview:

The Essential Climate Variables for assessment of climate variability from 1979 to present dataset contains a selection of climatologies, monthly anomalies and monthly mean fields of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) suitable for monitoring and assessment of climate variability and change. Selection criteria are based on accuracy and temporal consistency on monthly to decadal time scales. The ECV data products in this set have been estimated from climate reanalyses ERA-Interim and ERA5, and, depending on the source, may have been adjusted to account for biases and other known deficiencies. Data sources and adjustment methods used are described in the Product User Guide, as are various particulars such as the baseline periods used to calculate monthly climatologies and the corresponding anomalies.

Sum of monthly precipitation:

This variable is the accumulated liquid and frozen water, including rain and snow, that falls to the Earth's surface. It is the sum of large-scale precipitation (that precipitation which is generated by large-scale weather patterns, such as troughs and cold fronts) and convective precipitation (generated by convection which occurs when air at lower levels in the atmosphere is warmer and less dense than the air above, so it rises). Precipitation variables do not include fog, dew or the precipitation that evaporates in the atmosphere before it lands at the surface of the Earth.

Spatial resolution: 0:15:00 (0.25°)

Temporal resolution: monthly

Temporal extent: 1979 - present

Data unit: mm * 10

Data type: UInt32

CRS as EPSG: EPSG:4326

Processing time delay: one month

Date ( Publication ): 2020-10-26

Identifier: dataset

Status: On going

Point of contact

mundialis GmbH & Co KG - Markus Metz

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Temporal )

sum of monthly precipitation

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )

World

Keywords ( Theme )

MOOD-H2020

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Meteorological geographical features

Use limitation: Licence to Use Copernicus Products

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Use constraints: Intellectual property rights

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Other constraints: Licence to Use Copernicus Products (Version 1.2, Nov. 2019): "All users of Copernicus Products must provide clear and visible attribution to the Copernicus programme. The Licensee will communicate to the public the source of the Copernicus Products by crediting the Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services" (full licence available here: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf

Other constraints: { "id": "other-open", "name": "Licence to Use Copernicus Products", "url": "https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf" }

Spatial representation type: Grid

Denominator: 3

Distance: 0.25 degrees

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Geoscientific information
Health
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1979-01-01

End date: 2020-10-30

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6

Distribution format

GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/ecv-for-climate-change?tab=overview ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: specifies the extent, spatial and/or temporal, and/or common characteristic(s) that identify the data on which data quality was to be evaluated.

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Other citation details: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31

Explanation: See specified reference

Pass: Yes

Statement: Dataset has been processed from original Copernicus Climate Data Store (essential climate variables) data sources

Description: mundialis CDS aggregator

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier: 250d33d8-f6c5-42ff-b63e-8d882502929f XML

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2021-10-26T06:38:59

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Originator

mundialis GmbH & Co KG

Point of contact

mundialis GmbH & Co KG - Markus Metz

Dataset URI: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/ecv-for-climate-change?tab=overview

Citation proposal

(2020) . Essential Climate Variables: Sum of monthly precipitation (Copernicus Climate Data Store).
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/static/api/records/250d33d8-f6c5-42ff-b63e-8d882502929f

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