Precipitation by Epidemiological Week in Bogota, Colombia, 1981-2022

This dataset is part of the ESCALA (Study of Urban Health and Climate Change in Informal Settlements in Latin America) project that was funded by the Lacuna Fund of the Meridian Institute https://lacunafund.org/. This dataset contains precipitation data aggregated by epidemiological week for Bogota, Colombia, 1981-2022. CHIRPS (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/UCSBCHG_CHIRPS_DAILY) is a global precipitation dataset with a spatial resolution of 0.05° (approximately 5 km) that provides information from 1981 to the present, with daily temporal resolution. CHIRPS data is generated by the Climate Hazards Group from the University of California, Santa Barbara. This dataset contains total, mean, minimum and maximum rainfall in mm averaged per epidemiological week. Data cleaning included: (1) The original data are in NETCDF (.nc) format, which is a multidimensional data format. The data were processed and converted into a tabular format, separated by semicolons (;). The total precipitation, as well as the minimum, average, and maximum precipitation values per epidemiological week were calculated. The number of rainy days was also added, indicating the number of days with rainfall in each epidemiological week. (2) The variables LAT and LON indicate the location of the center of each pixel.