CHIRPS Precipitation Daily Reanalysis: Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation With Station Data (Version 3.0, ERA5-based)

Dataset Availability

1981-01-01T00:00:00Z–2025-11-30T00:00:00Z

Dataset Provider

UCSB/CHC

Earth Engine Snippet

ee.ImageCollection("UCSB-CHC/CHIRPS/V3/DAILY_RNL")

Cadence

1 Day

Tags

chc climate geophysical precipitation ucsb weather

Description

The Climate Hazards Center Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS v3) is a 40+ year, high-resolution quasi-global rainfall dataset. It spans 60°N to 60°S and covers all longitudes, providing data from 1981 to near-present. CHIRPS v3 combines satellite-based thermal infrared rainfall estimates with in-situ station observations to produce a 0.05° gridded rainfall time series over land. This is version 3.0 of the dataset, for more information see the CHC page.

CHIRPS is fundamentally a pentad and monthly product from which other time steps are derived. This daily dataset ('rnl') uses daily precipitation from the ECMWF ERA Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) data product to partition pentadal CHIRPS-v3 precipitation totals into daily amounts.

Bands

Pixel Size
5566 meters

Bands

Name	Units	Min	Max	Pixel Size	Description
precipitation	mm/d	0*	1444.34*	meters	Precipitation

* estimated min or max value

Image Properties

Image Properties

Name	Type	Description
year	DOUBLE	Year
month	DOUBLE	Month
day	DOUBLE	Day

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

This dataset is in the public domain. To the extent possible under law, Pete Peterson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Climate Hazards Center Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS).

Citations

Citations:

• Climate Hazards Center Infrared Precipitation with Stations version 3. CHIRPS3 Data Repository doi:10.15780/G2JQ0P (2025).

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('UCSB-CHC/CHIRPS/V3/DAILY_RNL')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2018-05-01', '2018-05-31'));
var precipitation = dataset.select('precipitation');
var precipitationVis = {
  min: 1.0,
  max: 17.0,
  palette: ['#001137', '#0aab1e', '#e7eb05', '#2c7fb8', '#253494'],
};
Map.setCenter(17.93, 7.71, 2);
Map.addLayer(precipitation, precipitationVis, 'Precipitation');

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CHIRPS Precipitation Daily Reanalysis: Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation With Station Data (Version 3.0, ERA5-based)

The Climate Hazards Center Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS v3) is a 40+ year, high-resolution quasi-global rainfall dataset. It spans 60°N to 60°S and covers all longitudes, providing data from 1981 to near-present. CHIRPS v3 combines satellite-based thermal infrared rainfall estimates with in-situ station observations to produce a 0.05° gridded …

UCSB-CHC/CHIRPS/V3/DAILY_RNL, chc,climate,geophysical,precipitation,ucsb,weather

1981-01-01T00:00:00Z/2025-11-30T00:00:00Z

-60 -180 60 180

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