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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.

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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

Australian National University - Michael Hutchison (Professor)
Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Frank Fenner Building 141,
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra
0200
Australia
(+61) 2 6125 4783

Author

Australian National University - Jennifer Kesteven (Researcher)
Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Frank Fenner Building 141,
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra
0200
Australia
(+61) 2 6161 7379

Author

Australian National University - Tingbao Xu (Researcher)
Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Frank Fenner Building 141,
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra
0200
Australia
(+61) 2 612 50668

Publisher

NCI Australia - Research Data Management Specialist
143 Ward Road, Acton, ACT, 2601
Canberra
2601
Australia
+61 02 6152 9800
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

Australian National University - Jennifer Kesteven (Researcher)
Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Frank Fenner Building 141,
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra
0200
Australia
(+61) 2 6161 7379

Author

Australian National University - Tingbao Xu (Researcher)
Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Frank Fenner Building 141,
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra
0200
Australia
(+61) 2 612 50668

Publisher

NCI Australia - Research Data Management Specialist
143 Ward Road, Acton, ACT, 2601
Canberra
2601
Australia
+61 02 6152 9800
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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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/
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File description
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File type
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Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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License
Use constraints
License
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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Distributor

Distributor

National Computational Infrastructure, Australian National University
10 East Road, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
Acton
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
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
Parent metadata
  • ANUClimate collection

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
 
 

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