A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901–present

Becker, Andreas; Finger, Peter; Meyer-Christoffer, Anja; Rudolf, B.; Schamm, Kirstin; A. Schneider, Uwe; Ziese, Markus

doi:10.5194/essd-5-71-2013

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A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901–present

Published in Earth system science data • Feb 21, 2013

Authors:

Andreas Becker

Peter Finger

Anja Meyer-Christoffer

Abstract

Abstract. The availability of highly accessible and reliable monthly gridded data sets of global land-surface precipitation is a need that was already identified in the mid-1980s when there was a complete lack of globally homogeneous gauge-based precipitation analyses. Since 1989, the Global Precipi...

Subject

Precipitation

Climatology

Environmental science

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