Overview

Dataset Title	Average monthly total precipitation for the month of January from 1981 to 2025	?
Abstract	Average monthly total precipitation for southern Africa for the month of January was extracted from monthly CHC CHIRPS 3.0 precipitation data (https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps).	?
Topic Category	climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere	?

Data Quality

Lineage Statement

Average monthly total precipitation for southern Africa for the month of January was extracted from monthly CHC CHIRPS 3.0 precipitation data (https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps).

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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	publication	?
Dataset Reference Date	2026-03-23	?
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	?

Temporal Extent

Begin	1981-01-01	?
End	2025-12-31	?

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	2026-03-31	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_7533 (Link)