Meteorological, Hydrological and Oceanographic Database

  • ID:
    sensing-meteo-27
  • Source Organisation:
    C3S-CDS
  • Name:
    Daily and monthly Global Interpolated RAinFall Estimation (GIRAFE) data derived from satellite observations
  • Type:
    data (format: NetCDF-4)
  • Area:
    climate data
  • Quality:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-precipitation-microwave-infrared?tab=documentation
  • Availability:
    Open, to be requested
  • Update frequency:
    No updates
  • Legal restrictions:
    All intellectual property rights of the CM SAF products belong to EUMETSAT
  • Description:
    GIRAFE provides global estimates of precipitation based on satellite observations.
  • Variable(s):
    Precipitation
  • Spatial coverage:
    Global
  • Spatial resolution:
    1°
  • Temporal coverage:
    2002-2022
  • Temporal resolution:
    daily, monthly
  • Resource:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-precipitation-microwave-infrared?tab=overview
  • API Protocol:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/how-to-api