Identification

Title

The Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN)

Alternative title(s)

d484000

Abstract

The Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN) dataset contains daily and monthly precipitation from stations in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The most up to date versions of this data can be downloaded directly from the PACRAIN web site [http://pacrain.ou.edu/] PACRAIN was significantly improved in 2008. Please see the home web site

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d484000/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d484000/dataaccess/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS

FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS

GROUND STATIONS > GROUND STATIONS

METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS > METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-23

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-24

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-180

East bounding longitude

180

North bounding latitude

22

South bounding latitude

-47

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Australia/new Zealand > Australia

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Australia/new Zealand > New Zealand

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > North America > United States Of America > Hawaii

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Ocean > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Ocean > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Ocean > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Polynesia > Fiji

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Ocean > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Polynesia > Samoa

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Micronesia > Marshall Islands

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Philippines

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1874-01-01

End position

2006-05-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1994-01-13

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

(303)-497-1217

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

tcram@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NCAR Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

rdahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://rda.ucar.edu/

name: NCAR Research Data Archive

description: The Research Data Archive (RDA), managed by the Data Engineering and Curation Section (DECS) of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR, contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.

function: downlaod

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-08-04T02:11:07Z

Metadata language