Table 1 Description of various reanalysis and global meteorological data
No | Rainfall product | Availability | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | MERRA | Global (NASA Modeling and Assimilation Data and Information Services Center (MDISC) (https://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/mdisc) | 1979-present |
2 | ERA-Interim | Global (ECMWF as part of Copernicus Climate Change Services) (https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/) | 1979-present |
3 | JRA-55 | Global (NCAR Computational Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) Research Data Archive (RDA; https://rda.ucar.edu) | 1958–2012 |
4 | CFSR | Global (National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI; www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/climate-forecast-system-version2-cfsv2) | 1979–2009 |
5 | WFDEI | Global (Produced post-WATCH using WFD methodology applied to ERA-Interim data) obtained from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (ftp://rfdata:forceDATA@ftp.iiasa.ac.at) | 1901–2012 |