Abstract: n meteorological investigations, the reference variable or ?ground truth? typically comes from an instrument. This study uses human observations of surface precipitation types to evaluate the same variables that are estimated ...

Abstract: he Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) has provided the global community a widely used multisatellite (and multisensor type) estimate of quasi-global precipitation. One ...