Discrepancy between gauges and satellite estimates of rainfall in equatorial Africa

The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) satellite estimates have approximately twice the magnitude of estimates produced from the rain gauges used by the GPCP in central equatorial Africa. Different possible explanations are identified and investigated. The first is that there may not be...

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Published in:Journal of applied meteorology and climatology 2000-05, Vol.39 (5), p.666
Main Authors: McCollum, Jeffrey R, Gruber, Arnold, Ba, Mamoudou B
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