Agrilinks features CHC's "CHIRTSmax: New global temperature product to inform climate change studies, climate extreme analyses, and early warning applications."
Key Takeaways:
- CHIRTSmax is a global gridded estimate of monthly averages of daily 2-m maximum air temperature (Tmax) that directly combines satellite and station-based estimates of Tmax to produce routinely updated data to support the monitoring of temperature extremes.
- The CHIRTSmax development process (Fig. 2) broadly follows the data development strategy used to develop our CHIRPS 1981-to-the present precipitation data set (Funk et al. 2015a). The basic idea behind CHIRPS was to produce a data set suitable for monitoring weather extremes in areas with limited in situ observations.
Originally published 10-25-2019
November 8, 2019 - 4:27pm