AbstractThe Global Precipitation Climatology Project of the World Climate Research Programme is an effort to use a variety of satellite estimates of rainfall together with station observations to derive a 10-year climatology of monthly rainfall for areas of 2.5° latitude/longitude. The Project will use rainfall estimates from both geostationary and polar orbiting satellites along with station observations to perform the global analysis.In the tropics, the primary data source used will be geostationary IR imagery, while passive microwave radiometric observations will be used over the extratropical oceans. A mix of data sources will be used over the continents. In this paper, we describe the various components of the Project, describe the process by which the operational geostationary satellite data are merged and the rainfall estimates derived, and show examples of tropical rainfall variability during 1987.


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    Title :

    The global precipitation climatology project


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    Publication date :

    1989-01-01


    Size :

    6 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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