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Title: World Precipitation, 1996

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1996

Summary

Precipitation is a point theme representing the sum of precipitation throughout the world. Measurements are represented by points at every .5 degrees and provided for every month of the year. This dataset is a part of the Global Climate Database from the Global Change Department National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection.

Subjects

  • World
  • ClimatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-180.0, 179.5, 83.0, -56.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-180.0, 179.5, 83.0, -56.0)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Global Change Department National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection. World Precipitation, 1996. Point data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-landinfo_world_precipitation_1996

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English