A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901-present

Earth System Science Data

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-99

  Becker, A ^a   Finger, P ^a   Meyer Christoffer, A ^a   Rudolf, B ^a   Schamm, K ^a   Schneider, U ^a   Ziese, M ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

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EID: 84880594696     PISSN: 18663508     EISSN: 18663516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/essd-5-71-2013     Document Type: Article

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