GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle

Schneider, Udo; Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Ziese, Markus; Rudolf, B.

doi:10.1007/s00704-013-0860-x

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GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle

Published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology • Mar 19, 2013

Authors:

Udo Schneider

Andreas Becker

Peter Finger

Abstract

In 1989, the need for reliable gridded land surface precipitation data sets, in view of the large uncertainties in the assessment of the global energy and water cycle, has led to the establishment of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) at Deutscher Wetterdienst on invitation of the WM...

Subject

Precipitation

Climatology

Environmental science

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