Contents related to GRENE-ei CAAM

These materials are put here for internal communications of the research project "GRENE-ei CAAM". (Introductory documents for general audience are not prepared.)

Daily precipitation in Thailand (gridded), 1979 - 2012

Data sources

Thai Meteorological Department

Grid size

0.05 degree longitude, 0.05 degree latitude

Interpolation method

"Spheremap" (Willmott C.J., Rowe C.M. & Philpot W.D. 1985: American Cartographer 12: 5 - 16.)

Note

• Values at grid boxes whose distance from the nearest observation station is larger than the equivalent of 0.05 degree latitude or longitude are set as missing.
• Values at grid boxes outside a poligon which approximates the national boundary of Thailand are set as missing.
• Background shading is based on topographic height (based on dataset "GLOBE" from U.S. National Geophysical Data Center, averaged on 0.05 degree longitude/latitude grid boxes). The grid boxes where elevation is higher than 500 m are shaded in grey.
• The temporal boundary between a day and another is 00 UTC (07 LST). The amount of precipitation observed at 00 UTC of a certain day is mentioned as the precipitation of the previous day.