Abstract: Previous observational studies indicated that local sea surface temperatures (SSTs) near the west coast of the United States, in the Gulf of California, and in the Gulf of Mexico have strong impacts on the North American ...

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: A pentad version of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project global precipitation dataset is used to document the annual and interannual variations in precipitation over monsoon regions around the globe. An algorithm ...

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: A method has been developed to produce real-time rain gauge?satellite merged analyses of global monthly precipitation. A dataset of these analyses spans the period from January 1979 to the present, which is sufficiently ...

Abstract: Kalman filter (KF)-based Climate Prediction Center (CPC) morphing technique (CMORPH) algorithm is developed to integrate the passive microwave (PMW) precipitation estimates from low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites and infrared ...

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: 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 ...

Abstract: This paper describes the initial work toward the production of monthly global (land and ocean) analyses of precipitation for an extended period from 1948 to the present. Called the precipitation reconstruction (PREC), the ...