Overview

Dataset Title	Rainfall total for October-November-December Quarter (OND) (1981 to 2025)	?
Abstract	The quarterly precipitation total from 1981 to 2025, was derived from CHIRPS 3.0 precipitation data. The data are provided as TIF raster file.	?
Topic Category	climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere	?

Data Quality

Lineage Statement

Quarterly precipitation for October-November-December from 1981 to 2025 was derived from monthly CHIRPS 3.0 precipitation data, a 0.05 degree satellite-based precipitation product. Precipitation values are represented in mm rainfall.

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Dataset Description

Dataset Contact Person or Dataset Contact Organisation	SASSCAL - Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management	?
Dataset Date Type	creation	?
Dataset Reference Date	2026-01-26	?
Dataset Language	English	?
Dataset Character Set	utf7	?
Dataset Online Linkage	no Online Linkage	?
Dataset Format	GeoTIFF	?
Dataset Scope	dataset	?
Dataset Status	completed	?

Geographic Location

Geographic Description

Africa

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Spatial Resolution

Spatial Representation Type	grid	?
Equivalent Scale	-1	?

Coordinate System

EPSG

WGS 84 (lat/long)

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Temporal Extent

Begin	1981-10-01	?
End	2026-12-31	?

Additional Extent Information

Vertical Datum

WGS84

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Metadata

Metadata Contact Person	Thompson, Sylvia	?
Metadata Language	English	?
Metadata Character Set	utf8	?
Metadata Standard Name	ISO/DIS 19115 for Geographic information-Metadata /RBIS	?
Metadata Date Stamp	2026-01-29	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_7516 (Link)