chirps_monthly {SeaVal}

Monthly mean precipitation

Description

This dataset contains observed monthly mean precipitation for the greater horn of Africa, for November - December 1991-2020. The unit of precipitation is mm/day. It also contains the tercile category, where -1 means below normal rainfall (lowest tercile for this location and month), 0 is normal and 1 is above normal.The data source is CHIRPS-blended, upscaled to a half-degree grid.

Usage

data(chirps_monthly)

Format

An object of class data.table (inherits from data.frame) with 209040 rows and 6 columns.

Source

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.UCSB/.CHIRPS/.v2p0/.monthly/.global/.precipitation/