South American Daily Station Distribution

Content Citation
  Title of Content: South American Daily Station Distribution
  Type of Content: Downloadable Data
  Content Publisher: Viviane Silva - NOAA Climate Prediction Center (viviane.silva@noaa.gov)
  Publication Date: Daily stations for the date in the file name 
 
Content Description
  Content Summary: Stations used in the daily gridded precipitation analyses. The CPC Realtime Analysis is prepared using GTS daily reports and additional reports provided by CPTEC, INMET, FUNCEME and SIMEPAR of Brazil and INAMHI of Ecuador. The primary sources of daily precipitation data for Brazil used in the historical gridded precipitation analyses (2005 version) are: a) Agencia Nacional de Energia Eletrica (National Agency for Electrical Energy ANEEL) (1960-1997), b) Agencia Nacional de Aguas (National Water Agency ANA) (1948-2004), c) Fundacao Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hidricos (Meteorology and Hydrologic Resources Foundation of Ceara (FUNCEME) (1973-2004), d) Superintendencia do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (Superintendence for Development of the Northeast) (SUDENE) (1948-1998), e) Departamento de Aguas e Energia Eletrica do Estado de Sao Paulo (Department of Water and Electrical Energy of Sao Paulo DAEE) (1948-1997) in collaboration with the Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos (Brazilian Weather Forecast and Climate Studies) (CPTEC), and f) Technological Institute of Parana (SIMEPAR) (1997-2004).
  Content Purpose: Real-time Monitoring.
 
Time Period of Content
  Date: Station distribution for the date in the file name
 
Content Status
  Progress: Real-Time data
  Update Frequency: Updated daily.
 
Spatial Domain
  West Coordinate: -90.000000
  East Coordinate: -30.000000
  North Coordinate: 15.000000
  South Coordinate: -60.00000
 
Content Keywords
  Theme Keywords: NOAA/CPC Daily Station Distribution for South America
 
Spatial Data Information
  Data Type: vector digital data
  Data Format: Shapefile
  Data Projection: Geographic
 
Access and Usage Information
  Access Constraints: Public data.
  Use Constraints: Public data.