GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle
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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 WMO. The GPCC has calculated a precipitation climatology for the global land areas for the target period 1951–2000 by objective analysis of climatological normals of about 67,200 rain gauge stations from its data base. GPCC's new precipitation climatology is compared to several other station-based precipitation climatologies as well as to precipitation climatologies derived from the GPCP V2.2 data set and from ECMWF's…
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- Precipitation
- Climatology
- Environmental science
- Water cycle
- Context (archaeology)
- Climate model
- Climate change
- Atmospheric sciences
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