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Monthly and annual weather and climate series (MERRA-2) per Syrian governorate.

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Syrian governorate climate

Rainfall, temperature, wind, humidity, and soil signals from representative governorate points.

License: Public Domain (US Government Work)
Last source check: 2026-07-12
Time coverage: 1981-01-01–2025-12-31
Data type: Modelled estimate

About this source

Owner: NASA Langley Research Center
Country scope: global
Update frequency: monthly

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What can this source tell us—and what can it not?

These values are MERRA-2 climate reanalysis model output, not rain-gauge measurements. They are useful for reading trends, but local accuracy is affected by model biases and by how complex terrain is represented within a grid cell. Sanad samples the roughly 0.5° monthly grid at each governorate centroid; this is not a spatial average of the governorate.

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