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Digital Earth Africa CHIRPS Rainfall
Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) provides free and open access to a copy of the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) monthly and daily products over Africa. The CHIRPS rainfall maps are produced and provided by the Climate Hazards Center in collaboration with the US Geological Survey, and use both rain gauge and satellite observations. The CHIRPS-2.0 Africa Monthly dataset is regularly indexed to DE Africa from the CHIRPS monthly data. The CHIRPS-2.0 Africa Dai
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Licence: To the extent possible under the law, Pete Peterson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to CHIRPS. CHIRPS data is in the public domain as registered with Creative Commons.
Evidence quality: 49.2
Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- daily rainfall (CHIRPS-2.0 Africa Daily) · monthly rainfall (CHIRPS-2.0 Africa Monthly)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Africa
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Monthly
- Formats docs-verified
- GeoTIFF (cloud-optimised)
- Access docs-verified
- Free and open access; anonymous S3 access without an AWS account (aws s3 ls --no-sign-request); public domain (CHIRPS copyright waiver, registered with Creative Commons)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Historical monthly rainfall baseline for hydrology studies at African project sites · Daily rainfall time series for flood or drainage screening in Africa · Rainfall anomaly and drought trend analysis for climate risk assessment in Africa
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · water resources engineers · climate risk analysts · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Coverage is Africa only; not applicable to UK sites · Update frequency is monthly, so not suitable for near-real-time monitoring · Spatial resolution and time span are not stated in the docs; check the linked CHIRPS specification before use · Access and data format details depend on DE Africa and AWS endpoints maintained by a third party
Evidence
- arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-input-datasets/rainfall_chirps_daily, arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-input-datasets/rainfall_chirps_monthly, arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-input-datasets-inventory
- https://registry.opendata.aws/deafrica-chirps/
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.