Overview

Dataset Title	Average Annual Total Precipitation for Africa from 1981/82 to 2024/25 (Chirps 3.0)	?
Abstract	Average annual total precipitation for Africa was compiled from monthly CHC CHIRPS 3.0 precipitation data (https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps). The annual total is compiled according to the hydrological rainfall year, starting 01 October and ending 30 September of the following year. The data unit is mm of rainfall.	?
Topic Category	climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere	?

Data Quality

Lineage Statement

Average annual total precipitation for Africa was compiled from monthly CHC CHIRPS 3.0 precipitation data (https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps). The annual total is compiled according to the hydrological rainfall year, starting 01 October and ending 30 September of the following year. The data unit is mm of 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	publication	?
Dataset Reference Date	2025-04-04	?
Dataset Language	English	?
Dataset Character Set	utf7	?
Dataset Online Linkage	https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps3	?
Dataset Format	GeoTIFF	?
Dataset Scope	dataset	?
Dataset Status	onGoing	?

Geographic Location

Description	Africa	?
Geographic Description	Africa	?

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	2025-09-30	?

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	2025-04-04	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_7489 (Link)