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Table 1 Summary of eight gridded datasets used in the study by Kanda et al. (2019)
Data set
Product/
version
Spatial coverage
Temporal
coverage
Spatial
resolution
Temporal
resolution
Description
Parameter used
(temperature/
precipitation)
Data
format
TRMM/TMPA
3B43 ver.7
50 S to 50 N,
180 W to 180 E
(tropics)
1998 – present 0.25°
Monthly
Satellite
observations
Precipitation
NetCDF
NCEP/NCAR
Reanalysis 1 90 S to 90 N, 0 E to
357.5 E
1981–2010
2.5°
Monthly
Reanalysis
Temperature
NetCDF
University of
Delaware (UDEL)
ver. 4.01
89.75 S to 89.75 N 1901–2014
0.5°
Monthly
Interpolated
datasets
Both
NetCDF
APHRODITE
V1101R1
(Prec.)
−15 S to 55 N,
60 W to 150 E
1951–2007
0.25°
Daily
Interpolated
datasets
Precipitation
NetCDF
V1204R1
(temp.)
1961–2007
Temperature
ERA Interim
Reanalysis
Global
1979-present 0.25°
Monthly
Reanalysis
Both
NetCDF
CRU-TS
4.10.
−60 S to 90 N,
−180 W to +180 E
1901–2016
0.5°
Monthly
Interpolated
datasets
Both
NetCDF
GPCC
5.0
Land
1901–2009
0.5°
Monthly
Interpolated
datasets
Precipitation
NetCDF
GPCP
2.3
1.25 E to 358.75E,
88.75 S to 88.75 N
1979–2010
2.5°
Monthly
Merged dataset Precipitation
NetCDF
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