Pacific Islands Daily Rainfall from PACRAIN

The Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Data Base (PACRAIN) was developed under a research grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Office of Global Programs (OGP). The PACRAIN project has been supplemented by an extensive collection of rainfall data from schools across the Pacific in the Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE). Each participating school is sent a rain gauge, instructional manuals and videotapes, and data sheets. Students at the schools record daily rainfall measurements and return the forms to the University of Oklahoma, where they are entered as a part of the PACRAIN database. Additional data analysis and quality-assurance technique development are provided by the Environmental Verification and Analysis Center (EVAC), located at the University of Oklahoma.

This dataset contains the daily rainfall records from many sites located on atolls and islands of the Pacific Ocean from Jan 1874 to May 2017. Besides the rainfall values, the sum of all data flags and time zone of the site are provided. The flags meanings are:

1 the timestamp indicates local time, not UTC
2 the amount includes rainfall from previous days
4 the amount is estimated
8 there are one or more footnotes for this record
16 the timestamp is estimated
32 the value was flagged in the source data as failing a QA check

The timestamp is UTC (GMT) unless indicated otherwise: please check the variables: sum of all data flags valid for each record and time zone in hours from UTC.

 

Variables
Rainfall (mm)
Sum of all data flags valid for each record
Time zone in hours from UTC
ZonalStation data
MeridionalStation data
VerticalElevation
Temporal Jan 1874 to May 2017 by 1 day
Static?no
Volume 963 stations
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Sourcehttp://pacrain.ou.edu/
Acquired Feb 25, 2005 (Updated Jul 2017)
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