DMCSEE-Precipitation_Percentiles_map eng MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8 dataset DMCSEE - Drought Management Centre for Southeastern Europe ajda.valher@gov.si pointOfContact 2014-07-28 ISO19115 2003/Cor.1:2006 Precipitation Percentiles map 2014-07-28 creation DMCSEE-Precipitation_Percentiles_map A percentile is the value of a variable below which a certain percent of observations fall. Long term precipitation record is sort by rank by month; 50 years period (1951-2000) was used. The 5th (10th, 15th etc.) percentile is the value below which 5 (10, 15 etc.) percent of the observations may be found. The 25th percentile is also known as the first quartile; the 50th percentile as the median. Percentile values above 50 indicate wetter periods and values less than 50 indicate drier periods. Maps are available from year 1951. Drought Management Centre for Southeastern Europe - DMCSEE gregor.gregoric@gov.si pointOfContact DMCSEE, drought monitoring system, drought product, meteorology, national/multinational drought product, precipitation percentile DroughtVocabulary 2011-04-19 publication No conditions apply otherRestrictions no limitation 8 eng climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 13.38 16.60 45.42 46.88 1951-01-01 unknown unknown http://www.dmcsee.org/en/drought_monitor/ dataset COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata 2008-12-04 publication See the referenced specification For making maps monthly precipitation data from GPCC were used. This data are land-only in latitude/longitude format in resolution 1 degree x 1 degree. For calculating monthly percentiles (5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 - with R) data from VASClimO (resolution 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree) for all period (1951-2000) were used. Data were imported into GRASS GIS and interpolated to 100x (50x) better resolution (0.01 degree). For reprojecting maps into Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (lcc) nearest interpolation method was used.