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Free Download Yearly Gridded data Binary File

Rainfall:
IMD New High Spatial Resolution (0.25X0.25 degree) Long Period (1901-2018) Daily Gridded Rainfall Data Set Over India. This data product is a very high spatial
resolution daily gridded rainfall data (0.25 x 0.25 degree). The unit of rainfall is in millimeter (mm). Data available for 118 years, 1901 to 2018. Data is arranged in
135x129 grid points. The first data in the record is at 6.5N & 66.5E, the second is at 6.5N & 66.75E, and so on. The last data record corresponds to 66.5N & 100.0E.
The yearly data file consists of 365/366 records corresponding to non leap/ leap years.

Click here for sample Fortran code To read the data.

Click here for sample C code to read the data.

Click here for sample grads control file for reading the data in grads software .

DSET e:\ind1901_rfp25.grd
TITLE 0.25 degr analyzed grids
UNDEF -999.0
XDEF 135 LINEAR 66.5 0.25
YDEF 129 LINEAR 6.5 0.25
ZDEF 1 linear 1 1
* CHANGE TDEF TO 366 FOR LEAP YEARS
TDEF 365 LINEAR 1jan1901 1DY
VARS 1
rf 0 99 GRIDDED RAINFALL
ENDVARS

Temperature:
IMD High resolution 1By1 degree gridded daily temperature data (1951-2018)*. This data is arranged in 31x31 grid points. Lat 7.5N, 8.5N ... 36.5, 37.5 (31 Values).
Long 67.5E, 68.5E ... 96.5, 97.5 (31 Values). For leap years, data for 366 days are included. The unit of tempereture is in Celcious.
* Gridded data for the year 2008 and onwards are based on relatively less number of stations (around 180) for which data were received operationaly on real time
basis.

Click here for sample Fortran code To read the data.

Click here for sample C code to read the data.

/* This program reads binary data for 365/366 days and writes in ascii file. */
#include
main()
{ float t[31][31];
int i,j ,k;
FILE *fin,*fout;
fin = fopen("D:\\DailyT\\MeanT\\MEANT1980.GRD","rb"); // Input file
fout = fopen("D:\\DailyT\\MEANT15APR1980.TXT","w"); // Output file
fprintf(fout,"Daily Tempereture for 15 April 1980\n");
if(fin == NULL)
{ printf("Can't open file");
return 0;
}
if(fout == NULL)
{ printf("Can't open file");
return 0;
}
for(k=0 ; k<366 ; k++)
{ fread(&t,sizeof(t),1,fin) ;
if(k == 105)
{ for(i=0 ; i < 31 ; i++)
{ fprintf(fout,"\n") ;
for(j=0 ; j < 31 ; j++)
fprintf(fout,"%6.2f",t[i][j]);
}
}
}
fclose(fin);
fclose(fout);
return 0;
} /* end of main */

Click here for sample grads control file for reading the data in grads software .

For comments and questions on the data or for any other clarificaitons regarding the data set, please contact:

Climate Prediction Group,

Office of Head, Climate Research and Services,
India Meteorological Department
Pune, INDIA. 411 005.

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Gridded Rainfall (0.25 x 0.25) Binary File

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CITATION (for Rainfall):

Should you refer to our product in your paper/presentation, please cite Pai et al. (2014). Pai D.S., Latha Sridhar, Rajeevan M., Sreejith O.P., Satbhai N.S. and
Mukhopadhyay B., 2014: Development of a new high spatial resolution (0.25° X 0.25°)Long period (1901-2010) daily gridded rainfall data set over India and its
comparison with existing data sets over the region; (ref_paper_MAUSAM.pdf) MAUSAM, 65, 1(January 2014), pp1-18.

CITATION (for Temperature):

Should you refer to our product in your paper/presentation, please cite Srivastava et al. A. K. Srivastava, M. Rajeevan, S. R. Sshirsagar : Development of High
Resolution Daily Gridded Temperature Data Set (1969-2005) for the Indian Region. (Research paper.pdf) ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE LETTERS Atmos. Sci. Let.
(2009) DOI: 10.1002/asl.232.

DISCLAIMER:

Although every care has been taken in preparing and testing the data set, India Meteorological Department cannot guarantee that the data are correct in all
circumstances. India Meteorological Department also does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, or for any loss or damage arising
from its use.

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