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CHIRPS v3 (UCSB Climate Hazards Center)

Satellite-plus-gauge rainfall back to 1981, globally, at ~5km. The workhorse for regions with no gauge network.

What this is

CHIRPS blends satellite thermal imagery with ground-station data into a quasi-global daily rainfall record from 1981 to present. Coverage runs 60°N–60°S at 0.05° (~5km). Available via UCSB CHC bulk download, Google Earth Engine, and COG. Version 3 is current; v2 retires end-2026.

Why we surface it

Where rain gauges are sparse — which is most of the world — CHIRPS is often the most credible historical rainfall series available. Public domain (v3 — CC0-registered).

What you can do with it

Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.

Internal / individual use
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Redistribute the data
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Republish a derivative
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Build into a private product
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).

This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.

○ Planned

Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.

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