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Annual Total Precipitation

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Description

This dataset contains the total amount of precipitation that falls on a gridcell during an average year in units of millimeters (mm3 per year / mm2 = mm / year). The mean represented in the data is the standard 30 year mean running from 1960 to 1990.

Full Citation

Climate Research Unit, Univ. of East Anglia. Available at this address.

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