The other
dataset comes from the Asian Precipitation–Highly-
Resolved Observational Data Integration Toward
Evaluation of Water Resources (APHRODITE) project
(Yatagai et al. 2012). APHRODITE has produced
high-resolution quality-controlled daily gridded precipitation
datasets based on data collected at 5000–
12 000 stations covering the Asian monsoon region over
the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and mountainous
regions of the Middle East for the years 1957–2007. This
study used their 0.258 products for the Asian monsoon
and Middle East regions.