Predicting Surface Runoff from Catchment to Large Region

Table 3

Summary of precipitation datasets.

Name	Source	Domain	Period of record	Available timestep(s)	Available resolution	References
APHRODITE	U. of Tsukuba and JMA	Asia	1951–2007	Daily	0.25 × 0.25, 0.5 × 0.5; 0.05 × 0.05 (Japan only)	[116]
CHOMPS	CICS	Global	1998–2007	Daily	0.25 × 0.25	[117]
GSWP-2	GEWEX	Global	1986–1995	Subdaily	1 × 1	[118]
WFD	EU-FP6	Global	1901–2001	Subdaily	0.5 × 0.5	[119]
WFDEI	EU-FP6	Global	1979–2012	Subdaily, daily	0.5 × 0.5	[120]
CMAP	NOAA CPC	Global	1979–2011	Monthly, pentad	2.5 × 2.5	[121]
CMORPH	CPC	Global	2002–2013	Subdaily, daily	0.25 × 0.25	[122]
CRU	CRU	Global	1901–2013	Monthly	0.5 × 0.5	[123]
Daymet	U. of Montana	North America	1980–2013	Daily	1 km × 1 km	[124]
Global (land) precipitation and temperature	U. of Delaware	Global	1900–2010	Monthly	0.5 × 0.5	[125]
GPCC	DWD	Global	1900–2010	Monthly	, ,	[126]
Princeton	Princeton University	Global	1948–2008	Subdaily	1 × 1	[127]
GPCP	GSFC (NASA)	Global	1979–2014	Monthly	2.5 × 2.5	[128]
HOAPS	CM SAF and Uni. of Hamburg	Global	1987–2008	Subdaily, monthly	0.5 × 0.5	[129]
COREV2	NCAR	Global	1949–2006	Subdaily, daily, monthly	1 × 1	[130]
NLDAS	NASA, NOAA, Princeton, U. of Washington	North America	1979–2014	Hourly	0.125 × 0.125	[131]
GLDAS	NASA, NOAA	Global	1948–2014	Subdaily, monthly	0.25 × 0.25, 1 × 1	[132]
PERSIANN	CHRS	Global	1979–2014	Subdaily, monthly	0.25 × 0.25	[133]
PREC/L	NOAA	Global	1948–2014	Monthly	, ,	[134]
PRISM	Oregon State University	North America	1895–2014	Daily, monthly	4 km, 800 m	[135]
SSM/I, SSMIS	NASA	Global	1987–2012	Daily, monthly, weekly	0.25 × 0.25	[136]
TRMM	NASA and JAXA	Tropics	1998–2014	Subdaily, daily, monthly	0.25 × 0.25	[137]

APHRODITE: Asian Precipitation—Highly Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of Water Resources; JMA: Japan Meteorological Agency; CHOMPS: CICS High-Resolution Optimally Interpolated Microwave Precipitation from Satellites; CICS: Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies; GSWP: Global Soil Wetness Project; GEWEX: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment; NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; WFD: WATCH Forcing Data; EU-FP6: European Union Sixth Framework Programme; WFDEI: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA-Interim reanalysis data; CMAP: CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation; CPC: Climate Prediction Center; CMORPH: CPC MORPHing technique high resolution precipitation (60S-60N); CRU: Climatic Research Unit; Daymet: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries; GPCC: Global Precipitation Climatology Centre; DWD: German Weather Service; GPCP: Global Precipitation Climatology Project; HOAPS: Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data; CM SAF: Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring; COREV2: Common Ocean Reference Experiment Version 2: Large-Yeager Air-Sea Surface Flux; NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research; NLDAS: North American Land Data Assimilation System; GLDAS: Global Land Data Assimilation System; PERSIANN: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks; CHRS: Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing; PRISM: Parameter-Elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model; PREC/L: NOAA’s Precipitation Reconstruction Land; SSM/I, SSMIS: Special Sensor Microwave/Imager and Sounder; TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission; JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.