Category: Climate

CHIRPS Rainfall

UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Center

Commercial
Yes
Format
GeoTIFF, NetCDF
Coverage
50°S–50°N, 0.05°, 1981–present
Projection
EPSG:4326 · WGS 84
Last updated
Added to findgis 27 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Monthly

Quasi-global 0.05° rainfall estimates from 50°S to 50°N since 1981.

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Source and attribution

Publisher
UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Center
License
Public domain
Commercial use
Yes
Attribution required
No
Modification allowed
Yes
Redistribution allowed
Yes
Share-alike
No
CHIRPS v3 page: “CHIRPS3 is in the public domain, as registered with Creative Commons, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To the extent possible under the law, the Climate Hazards Center has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to CHIRPS3.” Kept as Public domain (CC0): the page states a public-domain waiver; its CC BY 4.0 sentence is the only Attribution signal (decision r).License text
Region
Global
Type
Raster
Extent
-180-5018050West, south, east, north. Data extent.

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