Title: Obtain and Analyze Rainfall data from the Climate Prediction
Description: The Climate Prediction Center's (CPC, www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov) daily
rainfall data for the entire world, from 1979 to the present, at a
resolution of 50 km (0.5 degrees lat-lon), is one of the few high quality
and long-term observation-based rainfall products available for free. Data
and processing the data is not straightforward - there are too many files
and file formats and file extensions have changed over time. This package
provides functionality to download and process the raw data from CPC.

Title: Obtain and Analyze Rainfall Data from the Climate Prediction
Description: The Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) global rainfall data, 1979
to present, 0.5 degree (or 50 km) resolution, is one of the few high
quality, long term, observation based, daily rainfall products available
for free. Although raw data is available at CPC's ftp site, obtaining,
processing and visualizing the data is not easy since there are over
12000 files and formats and names of these files have changed over time.
This package provides functionality to download, process and visualize over
35 years of global daily rainfall data from CPC. The vignette demonstrates
the use of this package, including the extraction and display of regional

Description: The Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) rainfall data for the
world (1979 to present, 50 km resolution) and the USA (1948 to
present, 25 km resolution), is one of the few high quality, long
term, observation based, daily rainfall products available for free.
Although raw data is available at CPC's ftp site, obtaining,
processing and visualizing the data is not straightforward. There are
more than 12,000 files for the world and about 24,000 files for the USA.
Moreover, file formats and file extensions have not been consistent.
This package provides functionality to download, process and visualize
over 35 years of global rainfall data and over 65 years of USA rainfall

Title: Obtain and Analyze Daily Rainfall Data from the USA Climate
thousands of files, and file formats and file extensions have been
changing over time. This package provides functionality to download,
process and visualize over 40 years of global rainfall data and over