Description
Anomalies can help identify variability more meaningfully than absolute values. High or low absolute values in one location may be ‘normal’ for that location while they may be catastrophic in another. The Extreme Precipitation - Anomaly dataset provides more meaningful local comparisons by capturing where extreme precipitation is unusual for a specific location.
Technical Description
The Extreme Precipitation - Anomaly Monthly Summary product provides valuable insights into the frequency of extreme precipitation actuals across the globe at a monthly timescale. This product seeks to identify areas where precipitation conditions may cause potential damage to life and property.
The product's extreme_precipitation_anomaly_frequency field is an asset-centered metric that detects locations
experiencing high precipitation that are concurrently above the normal conditions for
that area. It considers regional acclimatization and ensures an absolute baseline for classifying
extreme precipitation events.
This dataset contains the following fields:
- extreme_precipitation_anomaly_frequency: The product's ‘extreme_precipitation_anomaly_frequency’ field is an asset-centered metric that detects locations experiencing high precipitation that are concurrently above the normal conditions for that area. It considers regional acclimatization and ensures an absolute baseline for classifying extreme precipitation events. This is the rate of days/month (between 0.0-1.0) where the daily precipitation is above 10mm AND above the 95th baseline percentile for that location.