The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Combined Precipitation Dataset

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-20

  Huffman, George J ^a,b   Adler, Robert F ^b   Arkin, Philip ^c   Chang, Alfred ^b   Ferraro, Ralph ^d   Gruber, Arnold ^d   Janowiak, John ^c   McNab, Alan ^e   Rudolf, Bruno ^f   Schneider, Udo ^f  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e NOAA/NESDIS/Natl Climat Data Ctr   (United States)

^f DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATASET; GPCP; PRECIPITATION;

EID: 0031435439     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0005:TGPCPG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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