Mexican Daily Precipitation Data https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.108 Summary This data set contains daily precipitation data from across Mexico. The data are from 1348 sites within Mexico covering the time period January 1989 to April 1999. In Version 2 of this dataset, the observation hours have all been set to missing or "99". According to the US data provider, Dr. Wayne Higgins, the observation time for the daily Mexican precip data was 8 AM local time for all data. With the complicating factors of a few Mexican states having daylight savings time for some of this period and there are two time zones in Mexico. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 15.108 * doi:10.26023/B5XX-QN4V-XE09 https://doi.org/10.26023/B5XX-QN4V-XE09 Versions 1.0 2.0: This dataset has been updated to correct the format to be the Daily Precipitation Format. The observation hours are unknown and have been set to the missing value of 99. Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Higgins, W. 2021. PACS: Mexican Daily Precipitation Data. Version 2.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/B5XX-QN4V-XE09 Accessed 28 Mar 2024. Additional citation styles can be generated by entering the DOI at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/). Acknowledgement In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements, please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as: Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/ Related projects * PACS: Pan American Climate Studies https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PACS Additional information * Spatial Type: point * Frequency: daily * Language: English Categories * Surface Platforms * Weather Stations Instruments * Rain Gauges GCMD Science Keywords * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT Documentation * pacmxpcp_Ver2.pdf [28 KiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/42268574A146/pacmxpcp_Ver2.pdf Related links * homepage: PACS EOL Homepage https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/pacs * info: Sample Plot Code https://github.com/NCAR/eoldms_plotscripts/tree/main Temporal coverage * Begin datetime: 1989-01-01 00:00:00 * End datetime: 1999-04-30 23:59:59 Spatial coverage * Maximum (North) Latitude: 30.00 * Minimum (South) Latitude: -30.00 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -150.00 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -30.00 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 Additional contact information * author: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 * author: Wayne Higgins https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/122 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.108?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.108?format=isotc211