I know there are some global database that include rainfall. But I would like something more specific for Africa at a spatial resolution around 0.25 degrees, and daily frequency for the last decade. Something equivalent to the European ECA&D would be great. Does it exist for Africa? Thanks.
Hi Victor,
Thanks for the blackland research institute and ITC. CFSR and MPEG satellite rainfall estimates are on you finger tips: See the following links:
For CFSR Query: http://cfsr.bse.vt.edu/swat-cfsr-v02.pl
For MPEG Query : ftp://ftp.itc.nl/pub/mpe/msg/
regards
For the period 2007-2013, and by using our SM2RAIN method with ASCAT soil moisture data, we have delivered a daily rainfall data set with 0,25° resolution on a global scale (and of course also for Africa).
See below more details on the method. For the dataset, let me know if you are interested and I'll be glad to send you the data.
Regards,
Luca
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Dear Victor
You should get high resolution gridded data (30 arc-seconds (~1 km)) at the below link in GIS format
http://www.worldclim.org/current
Cheers
Mahjoor
Victor
CHIRP dataset is good for this region too.
http://chg.geog.ucsb.edu/data/chirps/
Best,
Prajjwal
you can also validate some of the daily data with monthly totals from herehttp://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcc.html#detail
Have a look to this very recent study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016980951500037X
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