Abstract:Based on the high-quality precipitation data from 2 400 stations over China through the ANUSPLIN software developed by Australian National University with thin plate smooth spline method, an interpolation scheme adopting three variables(longitude, latitude, altitude), precipitation square pretreatment and three times spline was setup, then the digital altimetric data was introduced in order to weaken the effects of elevation on interpolation precision of precipitation square under the condition of Chinese special landscape, finally the datasets of daily and monthly 0.5°×0.5° grid-based precipitation over China from 1961 to 2010 are established by interpolating the precipitation data. Cross-validation tests show that this gauge-based analysis has high quantitative quality with annual interpolation error typically less than 0.49 mm and the relation coefficient amounting to 0.93; monthly error has periodic and regional variation, which shows the biggest value is in summer while the smallest one is in winter, one and the east and west have bigger error value than that of other areas. The mean bias error of the most gauges is between -10mm/month and 10mm/month.The relative bias error of 60%, 82%, 54% and 77% gauges are between -10% and 10%.This kind of datasets is helpful to explore the spatial and temporal distributions of the precipitation, but it still ignores narrow-range rainfall extreme centers. It can be used widely, including weather/climate monitoring, climate analysis, numerical model verifications, ecological assessment, and hydrological studies.