Evaluating the hydrological cycle over land using the newly-corrected precipitation climatology from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)

Atmosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Schneider, Udo ^a   Finger, Peter ^a   Meyer Christoffer, Anja ^a   Rustemeier, Elke ^a   Ziese, Markus ^a   Becker, Andreas ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global precipitation; Global water cycle; Rain gauge undercatch correction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; CLIMATOLOGICAL CORRECTION; CORRECTED PRECIPITATION; CORRECTION APPROACHES; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN GAUGES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE;

EID: 85015084703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos8030052     Document Type: Article

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