Climatology of Southern Asia Rainfall (CSAR)
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Daily rainfall estimation files have been created for the southern Asia
domain (70-110E;5-35N) beginning May 01, 2001. Originally implemented for use with
hydrometeorological and agricultural modeling schemes, this product is updated three
times daily at around 9am, 1pm, and 9pm Eastern Local Time and 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/S.Asia/
RFE2.0 Documents:
Southern Asia RFE Paper
RFE2.0 Documents: (Written for the Africa domain but methodology is similar for Southern 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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