CMORPH High-Resolution Africa Rainfall (Digital Earth Africa CHIRPS)
Digital Earth Africa documentation and access specification for free, analysis-ready CHIRPS monthly and daily rainfall over Africa, queryable via the DE Africa Open Data Cube / STAC. Useful entry point for African precipitation hydrology.
docs.digitalearthafrica.org
At a glance
- Region
- South Africa (Africa)
- Coverage
- Africa
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Non-Profit
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- precipitation
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design storms
Build rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for drainage design.
Because it has: precipitation
- 02
Model input
Drive hydrological, crop and urban drainage models.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Downscaling
Turn coarse rainfall grids into field or ward scale estimates.
- 02
Gauge + satellite fusion
Correct satellite rainfall with gauges using machine learning.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Open Data Cube STAC API over DE Africa
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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