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Annual Precipitation (polygon), 1996
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
- Publication Date
- 1996
- Title
- Annual Precipitation (polygon), 1996
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ArcAtlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, Calif.
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_1996_world_yrprecip.zip
- Abstract
- Annual Precipitation (polygon), 1996 is a polygon theme representing annual levels of precipitation worldwide. Atmospheric precipitation is water that falls from clouds to the earth's surface including objects on the earth. Precipitation takes many forms, including liquid forms such as droplets, rain, and drizzle, and solid forms such as snow, pellets, and hail. Atmospheric precipitation also includes water that precipitates directly or condenses on the earth's surface or earthbound objects as a result of vapor condensation. These forms of precipitation include dew, hoarfrost, soft rime, and glaze.
- Purpose
- For educational, non-commercial purposes. This dataset is appropriate for use in a GIS.
- Supplemental Information
- The parts of the earth with the greatest mean January precipitation are found in the equatorial zone. They include the Sunda Archipelago (600 to 800 mm or more), the Gulf of Guinea coast (more than 400 mm), the Amazon basin (nearly 1,000 mm), the western slope of the northern Andes (in the Cordillera Occidental, 1,000 mm or more), and the northwestern and central Brazilian highlands (nearly 800 mm). The areas with the least mean January precipitation (less than 10 mm) lie in the tropical belts. They include the west coast of South America (south of Punta Parinas), the Mexican highlands, the Gulf of California coast, the Sahel, the Sahara, Namib, and Kalahari deserts, Arabian peninsula, the Caspian depression, the deserts of central Asia, and south and southwest Australia. Low precipitation is also characteristic of the Canadian Arctic archipelago, northern Greenland, Yakutia-Sakha (Russia), and central Antarctica (about 1 mm).
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 1996
- Bounding Box
- West
- -180
- East
- 180
- North
- 85
- South
- -85
- Theme Keyword
- climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- Precipitation
- weather
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- Earth
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 1996
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- ESRI
- Delivery Point
- 380 New York Street
- City
- Redlands
- State
- California
- Postal Code
- 92373-8100
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 909-793-2853
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 909-793-5953
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- info@esri.com
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- the Department
- Publication Date
- 1952
- Title
- Atlas of Australian Resources: 1st Series.
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Canberra
- Publisher
- Commonwealth Government Printer
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1952
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- WMO, UNESCO, Goskomgidromet, USSR, UNEP.
- Publication Date
- 1981
- Title
- Climatic atlas of Asia,
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Leningrad.
- Publisher
- Gidrometeoizdat
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 1981
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Source
- Originator
- WMO, UNESCO, Cartographia. Tech. supervisor F.
- Publication Date
- 1970
- Title
- Climatic atlas of Europe,
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Budapest
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Originator
- Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory
- Publication Date
- 1978
- Title
- Klimaticheskiy atlas Afriki (Climatic atlas of Africa).
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Leningrad
- Publisher
- Gidrometeoizdat
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Originator
- WMO, UNESCO, Cartographia
- Publication Date
- 1975
- Title
- Climatic atlas of South America
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Budapest
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Originator
- WMO, UNESCO, Cartographia
- Publication Date
- 1979
- Title
- Climatic atlas of North and Central America
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Budapest
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Publication Date
- 1974
- Title
- Mirovoy vodnyy balans i vodnyye resursy Zemli (The world water balance and water
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Leningrad
- Publisher
- GUGK
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source
- Originator
- Parkinson, G.
- Originator
- C. J. Thompson
- Publication Date
- 1986
- Title
- Atlas of Australian Resources
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- atlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Canberra
- Publisher
- Commonwealth Government Printer
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Source Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 4790
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_Clarke_1866
- Ellipsoid Name
- Clarke 1866
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378206.400000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 294.978698
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- pcip_yr
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- AREA
- Area
- PERIMETER
- Perimeter
- SAPYRDD_
- South America
- SAPYRDD_ID
- South America ID
- LOW_P
- The minimum mean annual precipitation, in millimeters
- HIGH_P
- The maximum mean annual precipitation, in millimeters.
- NAPYRDD_
- North America
- NAPYRDD_ID
- North America ID
- EUPYRDD_
- Europe
- EUPYRDD_ID
- Europe ID
- AUPYRDD_
- Australia
- AUPYRDD_ID
- Australia ID
- ASPYRDD_
- Asia
- ASPYRDD_ID
- Asia ID
- ANPYRLB_
- Antarctica
- ANPYRLB_ID
- Antarctica ID
- AFPYRDD_
- Antarctica
- AFPYRDD_ID
- Antarctica ID
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- geopackage
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090611
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212) 854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
