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[Datastream #EIZ-719875]: Precipitation Rate for each Grid Point 1970-Present?



> Hello,

Hello Ben,
> 
> I'm interested in obtaining daily or monthly (whichever is available)
> precipitation rate data for each grid point within a specific region
> from 1970-present.  I'll use the data to run a time series on each grid
> point.
> 
> I've analyzing the NCEP reanalysis precip rate data and would like to
> dial down to each grid point within my grid area of interest (Horn of
> Africa).  How do I obtain this data in a format I can use for doing this
> from Matlab or other computer programs?


Sounds good, we (Unidata) do not handle the re-analysis data, NCAR and NOAA 
(NCEP) provide the reanalysis. Unidata does support netCDF, which can work in 
Matlab, IDL, ESRI GIS and others..so it might be wise to choose netCDF
as your output format of choice

Please see for NOAA' site:

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/reanalysis/reanalysis.shtml

..and for NCAR:

http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/reanalysis/

They (either site) will be better positioned to get you the data you desire
and address any questions outside of our scope.

> 
> I found something called cprat: Grid from this link:
> http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis/surf
> ace_gauss/cprat.sfc.gauss.1994.nc.html

Great, this is a dods (OpeNDAP) URL serving up netCDF data ( the .nc extension)

> 
> Do I download each year and specify the time/lat/long?


That will best be answered by NOAA or NCAR, wherever you choose to access
the data.


Hope this helped,

Jeff


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> BENJAMIN D. LEMKE, Capt, USAF
> Naval Postgraduate School
> Monterey, CA 93940
> DSN:  831-656-2044
> E-mail:  address@hidden
> 
> 

Jeff Weber
Unidata User Support
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EIZ-719875
Department: Support Datastream
Priority: Normal
Status: Open