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Average or mean total monthly precipitation

The average or mean total monthly precipitation is calculated as

Rmon=∑d=1N∗Rday,monyrsR_{mon}=\frac{∑_{d=1}^N*R_{day,mon}}{yrs}Rmon​=yrs∑d=1N​∗Rday,mon​​

where RmonR_{mon}Rmon​ is the mean monthly precipitation (mm H2O), Rday,monR_{day,mon}Rday,mon​ is the daily precipitation for day ddd in month monmonmon (mm H2O), NNN is the total number of records in month monmonmon used to calculate the average, and yrsyrsyrs is the number of years of daily precipitation records used in calculation.