India NCAP – Monthly average Precipitation Rates (1980-2023 Reanalysis Fields)

Updated: February, 2024

131 NCAP non-attainment cities are grouped into 104 airsheds. Of these airsheds, 73 contain only one city; 18 contain two cities, and nine contain three cities. Four airsheds – Delhi, Mumbai, Indore, and Chandigarh contain 10, 8, 5, and 5 cities respectively. An additional 33 cities, not on the NCAP list are also part of these airsheds.

In the table below, for the designated airsheds meteorological data summaries from the following reanalysis fields is presented as a CSV file. Each CSV file contains data as monthly averages (in mm/day) for the period covering 1980 to 2023. All the data is extracted from open global repository at PSL/NCAR.

• ERA5
• CHIRPS
• MERRA2
• NCEP/NCAR R1
• NCEP/DOE R2

For ERA5 extracts, an animation is presented for each of the airsheds, to demonstrate the variation in monthly average 2m-temperature over the period of 1980 to 2023.

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Precipitation (Rainfall) Rate 1980-2023 Monthly Averages from Reanalysis Fields