'Afghan_RFE_README.txt'

This is the readme file for archived central Asia covering the Afghanistan area NOAA/Climate Prediction Center RFE2.0 
daily rainfall estimates.  This file describes all archived rainfall estimates for the region, 
though the data located on the NOAA/CPC anonymous ftp server:
ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/cpc/fews/afghan 

CONTENTS:

  Afghanistan area daily rainfall estimates

    --data for Feb, 2002 - present:  'cpc_rfe_v2.0_ag_dly.bin.YYYYMMDD.gz'  where YYYY is year, MM is month, DD is day.

    --Spatial domain:  20.0-95.0E; 10.0-60.0N
    --Temporal domain:  00Z-00Z (24-hr rainfall accumulation estimate in mm)

    --Resolution:  0.1 x 0.1 degree

    --File structure:  binary, 4-byte floating point, 
                       big_endian for daily files contained in
                       ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/cpc/fews/Afghan

                       undefined = -999.0

                       file contains one record with (751 pixels in x direction) * (501 pixels in y direction) = 376251 points

                       uncompressed file size = 376251 points * 4 bytes per point = 1505004 bytes

    --File array ordering for grid shaping. 
                       pixel #1 = (10.0N; 20.0E)
                       pixel #2 = (5.0N; 20.1E)
                       pixel #376251 = (60.0N;95.0E)
  
    --For sub-domains, user must extract data points covering thier domain of interest 


These products were created by the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center's FEWS-NET group sponsored by USAID.  For details regarding
the algorithm, see http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews.  For usage or other information, contact Wassila.Thiaw.gov or
Pingping.Xie@noaa.gov.


Modified Oct, 2011