Monthly total precipitation: ANUClimate 1.0, 0.01 degree, Australian Coverage, 1970-2016
Monthly total precipitation of each month, for the Australian continent between 1970-2016. Monthly rainfall totals are useful for estimation of soil moisture for plant growth and surface runoff via soil water balance modelling. Modelled by expressing each monthly value as a normalised anomaly with respect to the gridded 1976-2005 mean for each month as provided by ANUClimate_v1-0_rainfall_monthly-mean_0-01deg_1976-2005. The monthly anomalies were interpolated by trivariate thin plate smoothing spline functions of longitude, latitude and vertically exaggerated elevation using ANUSPLIN Version 4.5. Station elevations were 0.05 degree local averages of grid values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3 as provided by ANUClimate_v1-0_digital-elevation-model-05deg-average_terrain_0-01deg. Monthly data values were calculated from Bureau of Meteorology daily data at stations where there were no missing observations and any accumulated records were wholly within the month, giving an average of 6410 data points per month between 1970 and 2016. Automated quality assessment rejected on average 16 data values per month (0.2%) with extreme studentised residuals. The mean absolute value of all individual cross validation residuals provided by the spline analysis is 10.9 mm (18% of the overall mean). A comprehensive assessment of the analysis and the factors contributing to the quality of the final interpolated monthly rainfall grids is in preparation.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- lwe_thickness_of_precipitation_amount
- Edition
- 1
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-08-04T09:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- Date (Revision)
- Other citation details
- NCI Project: rr9
Principal investigator
Author
Author
Publisher
- Purpose
- Monthly rainfall totals are useful for estimation of soil moisture for plant growth and surface runoff via soil water balance modelling.
- Status
- Completed
Author
Author
Publisher
- Topic category
-
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
))
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCES
- Keywords
-
- ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- :Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes)
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
-
NCI THREDDS Data Server
Data set location on NCI THREDDS server.
- mrd:mediumName
- /g/data/rr9/eMAST_data/ANUClimate/ANUClimate_v1-0_rainfall_monthly_0-01deg_1970-2016
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Monthly total precipitation of each month for the Australian continent has been modelled using ANUClimate 1.0.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
-
urn:uuid/c49888fe-eb97-4c2a-abfc-273a9d8e95d4
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Identifier
- Codespace
- https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/
- Description
- Parent Metadata Record
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c49888fe-eb97-4c2a-abfc-273a9d8e95d4
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-09-06T10:38:45
Metadata standard
- Title
- ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata
- Edition
- 1.1
Overviews
Spatial extent
))
Provided by
