PRISM precipitation climatologies for Alaska

This data set consists of PRSIM precipitation climatologies for Alaska in GeoTIFF format. The files in this data set are available from the PRISM Climate Group as text files but have been processed into GeoTIFFs. These are monthly climatologies with a resolution of 771m. Units are millimeters. There are multiple climatological periods currently available through PRISM, but only one is currently available through SNAP in this dataset: 1971-2000.

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Date (Publication)
2022-10-24
Credit
Michael Lindgren
Credit
Tom Kurkowski
Credit
PRISM Climate Group
Status
On going
Point of contact
  Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
771  m
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
1971-01-01
End date
2000-12-31
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Supplemental Information
This dataset is derived from the PRISM climatology files and have undergone very minimal (if any) transformation besides the file format conversion from ASCII / text files to GeoTIFF.
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3338
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
3505
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
5736
Cell geometry
Area
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
URL to web-accessible folder containing downloads for this data set ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

URL to web-accessible folder containing downloads for this data set

OnLine resource
PRISM Climate Group ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Information on the Alaska page from the PRSIM Climate Group

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Dataset
File identifier
59dc58a7-57b8-447a-8a6f-d17661c41b1e XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2022-10-24T17:44:51
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning
 
 

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