FROGS
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FROGS¶
Overview¶
The Frequent Rainfall Observations on GridS (FROGS) database is a collection of daily precipitation products on a common 1×1 deg grid. The collection includes satellite, ground-based and reanalysis products. Most of the satellite products were calibrated using rain gauges data, for these, where available, the non adjusted version is also provided. The temporal range included starts from 1901 to 2019 depending on the data product. Where it is possible the database will be extended in future updates of FROGs. The data products spatial coverage is also dependent on the original sources.
For more information please refer to the FROGs website and in particular to their news page for updates.
Data download¶
The data is downloaded from the IPSL ftp site, using the frogs.py python code available in this repository. Updates of the original data are sporadic, we check if any update is available with monthly frequency. Tha automated updates are managed via the Jenkins accessdev server.
Data location¶
We’ve downloaded FROGS data to:
/g/data/ia39/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/frogs/data/1DD_V1/<dataset>/<files>
Each <dataset> is listed below depending on the source data type and spatial coverage.
Satellite based quasi global:
3B42 v7.0
3B42 v7.0 IR
3B42 v7.0 MW
3B42 RT v7.0
3B42 RT v7.0 uncalibrated
CMORPH V1.0, RAW
CMORPH V1.0, CRT
GPCP 1DD CDR v1.3, not-enforced
GPCP 1DD CDR v1.3, enforced
GPCP IP
GSMAP-RNL-gauges v6.0
GSMAP-RNL-no gauges v6.0
GSMAP-NRT-gauges v6.0
GSMAP-NRT-no gauges v6.0
IMERG v6 early uncalibrated
IMERG v6 late uncalibrated
IMERG v6 final uncalibrated
IMERG v6 final calibrated
PERSIANN CCS CDR
PERSIANN CDR v1 r1
Land only:
CHIRP v1
CHIRP v2
SM2RAIN-CCI
Ocean only:
HOAPS v4
Satellite based regional:
ARC v2
COSH
TAMSAT v2
TAMSAT v3
TAPEER v1.5
Rain gauges based:
CPC
GPCC First Guess v1
GPCC Full Daily v1
GPCC Full Daily v2018
GPCC Full Daily v2020
REGEN Long Term Stations v1-2019
REGEN All Stations v1-2019
Atmospheric reanalysis:
CFSR
ERA5
ERA Interim
GSWP3 Rain & Snow
JRA55
MERRA1
MERRA2
License¶
Unknown.
Data citation¶
Roca, R., Alexander, L. V., Potter, G., Bador, M., Jucá, R., Contractor, S., Bosilovich, M. G., and Cloché, S.: FROGs: a daily 1×1 gridded precipitation database of rain gauge, satellite and reanalysis products, https://doi.org/10.14768/06337394-73A9-407C-9997-0E380DAC5598, 2019, accesed on %date%.
As this is an ongoing collection more data is added without chnages to the doi, so please specify date of access in your citation.
Reference¶
Roca R, Alexander LV, Potter G, Bador M, Jucá R, Contractor S, Bosilovich MG, and Cloché S (2019). FROGS: a daily 1° × 1° gridded precipitation database of rain gauge, satellite and reanalysis products. Earth System Science Data, 11, 1017-1035. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1017-2019
Acknowledgement¶
No statement provided.
Author note¶
Please note that this is a collection of datasets and the original sources should be cited too wherever possible.
Assistance¶
For assistance with FROGS data on NCI, open a new issue at https://github.com/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/FROGS/issues