Abstract: A description is given of the relationship between 6 h averages of fractional coverage of cloud above various height and temperature thresholds, derived from infrared data from the Synchronous Meteorological Satellite 1 ...

Abstract: The interannual variability in the upper tropospheric tropical wind field is described through empirical orthogonal functions, teleconnections and composite analyses. The data used are 11 years of mean monthly analyzed ...

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Abstract: The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) was established by the World Climate Research Programme to produce global analyses of area- and time-averaged precipitation for use in climate research. To achieve the ...

Abstract: The relationship between the flux of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) estimated from satellite observations and precipitation is investigated using monthly OLR data from the NOAA polar-orbiting satellites and the merged ...

Abstract: In order to further our quantitative understanding of the advantages and the shortcomings of the various sources of data used to represent climatic-scale precipitation, monthly gauge observations and satellite estimates ...

Abstract: Gridded fields (analyses) of global monthly precipitation have been constructed on a 2.5° latitude?longitude grid for the 17-yr period from 1979 to 1995 by merging several kinds of information sources with different ...

Abstract: Nine years (1986?94) of tropical and subtropical precipitation estimates based on the GOES precipitation index (GPI) are examined. The GPI, based on the results of studies relating fractional coverage of cold cloud to ...

Abstract: An algorithm is developed to construct global gridded fields of monthly precipitation by merging estimates from five sources of information with different characteristics, including gauge-based monthly analyses from the ...