Rainfall data can be hard to come by in the tropics. @anaigmendez.bsky.social leads a new paper taking a deep dive into the quality and potential biases in gridded precipitation data in Central America. CHIRPS comes out ahead, but be wary of trends! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
There are significant differences between gridded precipitation products in Central America in both variability and trends CHIRPS consistently outperforms Global Precipitation Climatology Centre ...