Andreas Becker

TL;DR: In this article, the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) at Deutscher Wetterdienst has calculated a precipitation climatology for the global land areas for the target period 1951-2000 by objective analysis of climatological normals of about 67,200 rain gauge stations from its data base.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a reference publication for the four globally gridded monthly precipitation products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), covering a 111-yr analysis period from 1901-present.

TL;DR: The GPCC Full Data Reanalysis as discussed by the authors dataset contains the centennial Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) full data reanalysis of monthly global land-surface precipitation based on the 75,000 stations world-wide that feature record durations of 10 years or longer.

TL;DR: The new Version 2.3 of the GPCP Monthly analysis is described in terms of changes made to improve the homogeneity of the product, especially after 2002, and the general La Nina pattern for 2017 is noted and the evolution from the early 2016 El Nino pattern is described.

TL;DR: The measurement of global precipitation, both rainfall and snowfall, is critical to a wide range of users and applications and the number of gauges available, or appropriate for a particular study, varies greatly across the Earth due to temporal sampling resolutions, periods of operation, data latency and data access.