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High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes
A set of 130 digital precipitation maps of the tropical Andes, covering Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at a 5km resolution. The maps represent different realizations of mean precipitation totals of the period 1981-2010 using different satellite-gauge merging methods. The work draws on a large database of 723 rain gauges and the full 5km Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (TPR) record from 1998 to 2014. Each map is approximately 1MB Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-01-14
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
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- doi: / 10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
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Manz, B., Buytaert, W., Zulkafli, Z., Lavado, W., Willems, B., Robles, L.A., Rodríguez Sánchez, J.-. (2016). High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Imperial College London Manz, B.
Point of contact Imperial College London Manz, B.
Author Imperial College London Buytaert, W.
Author Imperial College, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Zulkafli, Z.
Author Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú (SENAMHI) Lavado, W.
Author Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Willems, B.
Author Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Robles, L.A.
Author Universidad de los Andes Rodríguez Sánchez, J.-.
Author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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Colombia
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Ecuador
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© NERC/ Bastian Manz
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Manz, B., Buytaert, W., Zulkafli, Z., Lavado, W., Willems, B., Robles, L.A., Rodríguez Sánchez, J.-. (2016). High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36
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- Grid
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- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- 1981-01-01
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- 2014-12-31
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- WGS 84
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36.zip Supporting documentation
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36 Download the data
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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TRMM Precipitation Radar data, product 2A25, was obtained from NASA for the period Jan 1998 to Oct 2014. Individual orbital scans were converted into time-series and re-projected onto a regular UTM grid (5 km) in R (statistical software), which allowed averaging over time to obtain mean monthly and annual climatological rainfall fields (regular raster grids) from the TPR (in R). Monthly or daily rain gauge time-series for the period 1981-2010 were obtained from IDEAM (Colombia), INAMHI (Ecuador), SENAMHI (Peru), SENAMHI (Bolivia) and NOAA (USA) and mean monthly and annual climatological values were determined for every gauge using a bespoke R script. Gauging station coordinates are re-projected into UTM (in R). Satellite-gauge merging as described in the supporting information was conducted using bespoke R scripts. Following generation of the final merged climatological precipitation fields (regular raster grids) these are converted from R to GeoTIFF (.tif).
Metadata
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- 74a588cc-723c-4a35-ac0c-223f5b92ee36 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-19T15:26:49
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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