Overview

Dataset Title	Average annual daily Simple Precipitation Intensity Index (SDII) from 1981 to 2022	?
Abstract	The Simple Precipitation Intensity Index (SDII) represents the average daily rainfall for days with daily rainfall equal to or more than one mm of rainfall (2001 WMO). The SDII is a climate change indicator for the wet season of a year. The SDII is provided as an average annual daily figure from 1981 to 2021 for Africa.	?
Topic Category	climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere	?

Data Quality

Lineage Statement

The Simple Precipitation Intensity Index (SDII) for every day from January 1981 to December 2022 is derived by selecting all pixels in the raster with 1 mm or more of rainfall, and extracted from daily CHC CHIRPS 2.0 precipitation data (https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps). From these daily files, the annual average is calculated.

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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	revision	?
Dataset Reference Date	2023-09-26	?
Dataset Language	English	?
Dataset Character Set	utf7	?
Dataset Online Linkage	no Online Linkage	?
Dataset Format	GeoTIFF	?
Dataset Scope	dataset	?
Dataset Status	completed	?

Geographic Location

Description	Africa	?
Geographic Description	Africa	?

Spatial Resolution

Spatial Representation Type	vector	?
Equivalent Scale	-1	?

Coordinate System

EPSG

WGS 84 (lat/long)

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Temporal Extent

Begin	1981-01-01	?
End	2022-12-31	?

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	2023-01-31	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_7334 (Link)