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Development of a daily gridded precipitation data set for the Middle East

A. Yatagai
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P. Alpert
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We show an algorithm to construct a rain-gauge-based analysis of daily precipitation for the Middle East. One of the key points of our algorithm is to construct an accurate distribution of climatology. One possible advantage of this product is to validate high-resolution climate models and/or to diagnose the impact of climate changes on local hydrological resources. Many users are familiar with a monthly precipitation dataset (New et al., 1999) and a satellite-based daily precipitation dataset (Huffman et al., 2001), yet our data set, unlike theirs, clearly shows the effect of orography on daily precipitation and other extreme events, especially over the Fertile Crescent region. Currently the Middle-East precipitation analysis product is consisting of a 25-year data set for 1979?2003 based on more than 1300 stations.
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hal-00297073 , version 1 (18-06-2008)

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A. Yatagai, P. Xie, P. Alpert. Development of a daily gridded precipitation data set for the Middle East. Advances in Geosciences, 2008, 12, pp.165-170. ⟨hal-00297073⟩

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