A. Thailand Rain Gauge dataset
Ten years (1993-2002) of monthly and daily rainfall data collected from more than a hundred rain gauges over the country are obtained from the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD). The data are binned into 1x1 degree boxes. Thailand covers about 40 1x1 degree grid boxes. There are at least two gauges per grid box. The dataset is separated into five main geographic regions: north, central, northeast, east and south. Figure 1 shows the five regions and the gauge locations.