University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a research university in Santa Barbara, California, and home to the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS), a quasi-global rainfall dataset spanning over 35 years (1981–present) from 50°S to 50°N. Developed at UCSB, CHIRPS integrates in-house climatology (CHPclim), 0.05° resolution satellite imagery, and in-situ station data to generate gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and drought monitoring.