CMAP: The CPC merged analysis of precipitation

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 28, Issue , 2007, Pages 319-328

  Xie, Pingping ^a   Arkin, Phillip A ^b   Janowiak, John E ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Gauge Observation; Global Precipitation Climatology Project; Individual Input; Merging Algorithm; Satellite Estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900799612     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_25     Document Type: Chapter

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