Observational Datasets in South America
Many of the regular precipitation and temperature observations in South America are operated by governmental institutions dedicated to water management and forecasting operations. We have gathered some of the publicly available data and combined them with the global datasets that are available in this region.
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Climatological and Hydrological Observations for the South American Andes: In situ Stations, Satellite, and Reanalysis Data Sets
Description
A summary of observations datasets in South America
Condom et al. (2020)
Front. Earth Sci., 09 April 2020
Sec. Hydrosphere
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00092
The following table summarizes observational datasets in South America. For further information contact Lucia Scaff (lucia.scaff@usask.ca) or Kyoko Ikeda (kyoko@ucar.edu).
*many of the websites are in Spanish or Portuguese and need registration
datasource | country | type | variables | Period | spatial res. |
temporal res. |
Data Access* |
Additional Info |
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IANIGLA- SSRH |
Argentina | stations | PR TMAX TMIN |
2010-2020* | point | daily | Link | |
INMET | Brazil | stations | PR TMAX TMIN RH DT Pressure Wind radiation |
2010-2018* | point | hourly | Link | Link |
CAMELS- CR2met |
Chile | stations | PR TMAX TMIN |
1979-2016 | point | daily | Link | Link |
CAMELS- CR2met |
Chile | gridded | PR TMAX TMIN |
1979-2018 | 0.05deg | daily | Link | Link |
CAMELS- CHIRPS |
Chile | gridded | PR | 1981-2016 | 0.05deg | daily | Link | Link |
CAMELS- MSWEP |
Chile | gridded | PR | 1979-2016 | 0.25deg | daily | Link | Link |
CAMELS- TMPA |
Chile | gridded | PR | 1998-2016 | 0.25deg | daily | Link | Link |
IDEAM | Colombia | stations | PR | point | daily | Link | Link | |
SENAMHI | Peru | gridded | PR TMAX TMIN |
1981-2017 | 0.1deg | daily | Link | Link |
NCEI | Global | stations | Link | |||||
TRMM 3B42 V7.0 |
Lat 60°N-S |
gridded | PR | 2000-present | 0.25 deg | 3hrly | Link | Link |
GPM- IMERG V06 |
Lat 90°N-S |
gridded | PR | 2000-present | 0.1 deg | 30 min, 3hrs, 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 1mo | Link | Link |
Argentina National Weather Service (updated on Aug. 26, 2020) |
Argentina | stations |
PR, T, Wind, Clouds, and others |
2018 | point | hourly | LINK |
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