Obtain and Analyze Daily Rainfall Data from the USA Climate
Prediction Center (CPC)
Description
The Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) rainfall data for the
world (1979 to present, 50 km resolution) and the USA (1948 to
present, 25 km resolution), is one of the few high quality, long
term, observation based, daily rainfall products available for free.
Although raw data is available at CPC's ftp site, obtaining,
processing and visualizing the data is not straightforward. There are
thousands of files, and file formats and file extensions have been
changing over time. This package provides functionality to download,
process and visualize over 40 years of global rainfall data and over
70 years of USA rainfall data from CPC.