- Dataset Availability
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z–2023-08-31T00:00:00
- Dataset Provider
- UCSB/CHG
- Earth Engine Snippet
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Description
Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset. CHIRPS incorporates 0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring.
Bands
Resolution
5566 meters
Bands
| Name | Units | Min | Max | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
precipitation |
mm/d | 0* | 1444.34* | Precipitation |
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
This datasets are in the public domain. To the extent possible under law, Pete Peterson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS).
Citations
Funk, Chris, Pete Peterson, Martin Landsfeld, Diego Pedreros, James Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, Gregory Husak, James Rowland, Laura Harrison, Andrew Hoell & Joel Michaelsen. "The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations-a new environmental record for monitoring extremes". Scientific Data 2, 150066. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66 2015.
Explore with Earth Engine
Code Editor (JavaScript)
var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('UCSB-CHG/CHIRPS/DAILY')
.filter(ee.Filter.date('2018-05-01', '2018-05-03'));
var precipitation = dataset.select('precipitation');
var precipitationVis = {
min: 1,
max: 17,
palette: ['001137', '0aab1e', 'e7eb05', 'ff4a2d', 'e90000'],
};
Map.setCenter(17.93, 7.71, 2);
Map.addLayer(precipitation, precipitationVis, 'Precipitation');