How are the seasons defined for the daily precipitation and 25 km baseline data sets?
Each season is comprised of three calendar months, as follows. Winter = December, January, February Spring = March, April, May Summer = June, July, August Autumn = September, October, November For the daily precipitation data, the winter data sets are named according to the year in which January falls, e.g. Dec 1960 to Feb 1961 is ‘Winter 1961’. Seasonal data sets have been produced for 46 years, from Winter 1961 through to Autumn 2006, inclusive.
