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MSWEP
MSWEP (GloH2O). Access: download (request). Formats: NetCDF. Resolution: 0.1° 3-hourly. Coverage: Global. Pricing/licence: free non-commercial / paid commercial.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- precipitation (hourly, 0.1°) · near real-time precipitation (NRT variant) · Past and Past_nogauge historical variants
- Coverage docs-verified
- Global · 1979 to present
- Resolution docs-verified
- 0.1° spatial, hourly temporal (V3)
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Near real-time, continuously updated; release schedule not stated in DOCS (see external documentation)
- Formats llm-inferred
- NetCDF
- Access docs-verified
- Request access via form (non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0; download via Rclone). Commercial users: GloH2O API or FTP. Pricing not stated in DOCS.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Long-term (1979–present) hourly rainfall series for FRA design-event and catchment baseline analysis · Gridded rainfall inputs for hydrological model calibration and validation in sparsely gauged catchments · Historical storm event reconstruction for drainage and flood-risk model verification
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood consultants · drainage engineers · hydrologists · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: consultancy and other commercial use needs paid access via the GloH2O API or FTP · Non-commercial users can download only via Rclone from a shared Google Drive folder, which needs manual setup · Access request requires an academic or work email address (no Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) · Gauge under-catch not corrected in V3; the PBCOR product is recommended for hydrological modelling · Latency stated inconsistently: under 2 hours in one place, about 3 hours for the NRT variant elsewhere · Entry metadata says 3-hourly resolution, but DOCS describe hourly 0.1° for V3 (3-hourly applies to V2) · Commercial pricing not stated in DOCS
- Licence
- free non-commercial / paid commercial
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (named: Global)