NASA CHIRPS Project: Downscaled Atmospheric Forcings for High Mountain Asia, 2003-2019

High Mountain Asia is covered by this dataset of downscaled six-hourly atmospheric forcings from ECMWF and CHIRPS precipitation. The data spans from 2003 to 2019 at a spatial resolution of approximately 1 kilometer. It is hosted on AWS Open Data and requires an Earthdata Login account for access.

Use Cases

• Modeling glacier mass balance and meltwater runoff based on high-resolution precipitation and atmospheric forcing data.
• Analyzing climate change impacts on water resources in High Mountain Asia based on the 2003-2019 time series.
• Validating regional climate models based on the downscaled ECMWF and CHIRPS data products.

Strengths

• Data covers a 17-year time range from 2003 to 2019.
• Provides high spatial resolution of approximately 1 kilometer.
• Integrates two authoritative sources: ECMWF atmospheric forcings and CHIRPS precipitation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS).

Collection Method

Downscaled atmospheric forcings and precipitation data.

Time Range

2003 to 2019

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

High Mountain Asia