Global land precipitation: A 50-yr monthly analysis based on gauge observations

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-266

  Chen, Mingyue ^a   Xie, Pingping ^a   Janowiak, John E ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE;

EID: 0035982882     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2002)003<0249:GLPAYM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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