chirps_monthly

<p>This dataset contains observed monthly mean precipitation for the greater horn of Africa,
for November - December 1991-2020. The unit of precipitation is mm/day. It also contains the tercile category, where -1
means below normal rainfall (lowest tercile for this location and month), 0
is normal and 1 is above normal.The data source is CHIRPS-blended, upscaled
to a half-degree grid.</p>

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Provides tools for processing and evaluating seasonal weather forecasts,
with an emphasis on tercile forecasts. We follow the World Meteorological Organization's
"Guidance on Verification of Operational Seasonal Climate Forecasts",
S.J.Mason (2018, ISBN: 978-92-63-11220-0, URL: <https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/56227>).
The development was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement no. 869730 (CONFER).
A comprehensive online tutorial is available at <http://files.nr.no/samba/CONFER/SeaVal/>.

Claudio Heinrich-Mertsching

SeaVal

Validation of Seasonal Weather Forecasts

Celine Cunen

Michael Scheuerer

chirps_monthly function

<p>An object of class <code>data.table</code> (inherits from <code>data.frame</code>) with 209040 rows and 6 columns.</p>

chirps_monthly: Monthly mean precipitation

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