Dear APHRODITE Users!

We are very pleased to inform you that we have created and released the following products. 

- V1801 daily gridded precipitation over Monsoon Asia (MA, new algorithm)
- V1808 daily mean gridded temperature over Monsoon Asia (MA, new algorithm)
- V1101EX updated product of APHRO_MA (2007-2015, same algorithm)
- Climatological daily mean temperature over Monsoon Asia in 0.05 degree grid.

To download, you need to create a new account, since we renewed our data server.

First, please visit our website at aphrodite.st.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/products.html 
and also read gterms and conditionsh carefully at aphrodite.st.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/conditions.html

For Japan area, we release corrected version of APHRO_JP update (JST) as V1207R3.

You can download previous version of data (APHRO_V1101, 1951-2007; APHRO_JP_V1207) for long-term analyses.

NetCDF file will come later.

For reference, please see each greadmeh document. We are preparing reference papers for V1801 and V1808. 

Reference
[APHRODITE, V1101]
Yatagai, A., K. Kamiguchi, O. Arakawa, A. Hamada, N. Yasutomi and A. Kitoh (2012): 
APHRODITE: Constructing a Long-term Daily Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Asia 
based on a Dense Network of Rain Gauges, Bulletin of American Meteorological 
Society, 93,1401-1415, doi:dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00122.1.

[Temperature analysis]
Yasutomi, N., A. Hamada and A. Yatagai (2011): Development of long-term daily 
gridded temperature dataset and its application to rain/snow judgment of daily 
precipitation, Global Environmental Research, 15-2, 165-172.

[APHRO_JP]
Kamiguchi, K., O. Arakawa, A. Kitoh, A. Yatagai, A. Hamada, and N.Yasutomi, (2010): 
Development of APHRO_JP, the first Japanese high-resolution daily precipitation product for more than 100 years, 
Hydrological Research Letters , 4, 60-64.

*Papers for V1801 (precipitation) & V1808 (temperature) are in preparation.
Regarding the difference from the previous products (listed above), please see each greadmeh file. 
*Please keep update yourself by visiting our website for any new announcements.

Contacts

If you have any problems in downloading the file or products, please do not hesitate to contact us below.

Technical Inquiries
APHRODITE project team aphrodite.precinfo"at"gmail.com

General Inquiries
APHRODITE secretariat aphrodite.secretary"at"gmail.com

We welcome all positive and negative feedbacks. 
Your inquiries will help our products better. We hope our products will contribute your scientific work. 

Best regards,


Prof. Dr. Akiyo YATAGAI 

Course of Meteorology, 
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University
3 Bunkyocho, Hirosaki City, Aomori, 036-8561, Japan