afd1c0e4-67a1-4cf4-af0a-bc00f42e7f6b eng R. Gommes FAO-UN Senior Officer 06 570 54121 Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome Rome Italy rene.gommes@fao.org 2010-03-05T11:38:36 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 0.1 0.1 WGS 1984 Rainfall Monitoring for the African Continent 2008-12-04T11:19:00 Second Maps on monthly total rainfall amount (in millimeters) and monthly rainfall percentage of normals 1961-1990 (in percentage) are available here for download from August 2004 to October 2008 for the African continent. Rainfall data are also available in GeoNetwork for the following Regions: Northern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa and Southern Africa. An interpolation method (Kriging) is applied to input data. Data input for rainfall maps are provided by Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) operated by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, National Meteorological Service of Germany). GPCC First Guess Product, gauge-based gridded monthly precipitation data sets for the global land surface, at spatial resolutions of 1.0 x 1.0 degrees geographical latitude by longitude are used. The First Guess Product of the monthly precipitation anomaly is based on interpolated precipitation anomalies from about 6,000 stations worldwide. Data sources are synoptic weather observation data (SYNOP) received at DWD via the WMO Global Telecommunication System (GTS) and climatic mean (mainly 1961-1990) monthly precipitation totals at the same stations extracted from GPCC s global normals collection. An automatic-only quality-control (QC) is applied to these data. Since September 2003, GPCC First Guess monthly precipitation analyses are available within 5 days after end of an observation month. Regional crop monitoring and forecasting R. Gommes FAO - Agrometeorology Group Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome Rome Italy Agromet@fao.org Rainfall_10-2008.png large_thumbnail png Rainfall_10-2008_s.png thumbnail png temperature precipitation agroclimatology Africa Agromet eng climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -17.3 51.1 -34.6 38.2 Windisp IMG files 0.5 Mb http://www.dwd.de/bvbw/appmanager/bvbw/dwdwwwDesktop/?_nfpb=true&switchLang=en&_pageLabel=_dwdwww_klima_umwelt_datenzentren_wzn WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=36920&fname=AFr_raitot_raiper_2004.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download AFr_raitot_raiper_2004.zip Montly Rainfall for the African Continent - Year 2004 http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=36920&fname=AFr_raitot_raiper_2005.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download AFr_raitot_raiper_2005.zip Montly Rainfall for the African Continent - Year 2005 http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=36920&fname=AFr_raitot_raiper_2006.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download AFr_raitot_raiper_2006.zip Montly Rainfall for the African Continent - Year 2006 http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=36920&fname=AFr_raitot_raiper_2007.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download AFr_raitot_raiper_2007.zip Montly Rainfall for the African Continent - Year 2007 http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=36920&fname=AFr_raitot_raiper_2008.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download AFr_raitot_raiper_2008.zip Montly Rainfall for the African Continent - Year 2008 http://www.fao.org/nr/climpag/cropfor/cmaps_en.asp WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link FAO Climpag - Crop and weather conditions by Region http://data.fao.org/maps/wms?styles=geonetwork_afr_raiper_2008_10_36920_style OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map GEONETWORK:afr_raiper_2008_10_36920 Montly Rainfall Percentage of Normals 1961-1990 for the African Continent - Year 2008 http://data.fao.org/maps/wms?styles=geonetwork_afr_raitot_2008_10_36920_style OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map GEONETWORK:afr_raitot_2008_10_36920 Montly Total Rainfall for the African Continent - Year 2008