A global gridded dataset of daily precipitation going back to 1950, ideal for analysing precipitation extremes

Steefan Contractor, University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Lisa Alexander, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, Australia