Central Asia Rainfall Estimates (RFE)
Daily
Total
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Climatology
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Anomaly
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Percent of Normal
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Weekly
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Climatology
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Anomaly
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Percent of Normal
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Dekadal
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Climatology
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Anomaly
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Percent of Normal
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Month to Date
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Climatology
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Anomaly
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Percent of Normal
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Seasonal - Afghanistan - October - May
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Climatology
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Anomaly
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Percent of Normal
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Seasonal - Kazakhstan - May - September
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Anomaly
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Daily rainfall estimation files have been created for the central Asia
domain (20-95E;10-60N) beginning February 21, 2002. Originally implemented for use with
hydrometeorological and agricultural modeling schemes, this product covers a 24 hour period of
accumulated precipitation. Gridded binary data used to create graphics seen on this page
are available either from the NOAA/CPC/FEWS-NET ftp server or via CD. Resolution of
rainfall estimates are 0.1 by 0.1 degree and inputs include GTS station data, as well as
geostationary infrared cloud top temperature fields and polar orbiting satellite
precipitation estimate data from SSM/I and AMSU-B microwave sensors.
ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/fews/afghan/
RFE2.0 Documents: (Written for the Africa domain but methodology is similar for Central Asia)
General Description
Technical Description (pdf)
2002 Conference Presentation (ppt)
For information related to this product or project, contact Vadlamani.Kumar@noaa.gov or Nicholas.Novella@noaa.gov.
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