Global Precipitations and Climate Change

1. Methodologies of Global Scale Precipitation from Satellite Data

   1. Combination of Satellite Microwave and Infrared Measurements for Rainfall Estimation

      • Isabelle Jobard, Michel Desbois

      Pages 265-278

   2. Satellite Derived Rainfall Estimates Over Africa: Their Validation and Use in Monitoring Climate Change

      • George Dugdale

      Pages 279-292

   3. On the Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index as an Indicator of Rainfall

      • Sharon E. Nicholson

      Pages 293-305

2. Validation and Initialization of Numerical Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. Improved Precipitation Forecast Skill from the Use of Physical Initialization

      • T. N. Krishnamurti, G. D. Rohaly, H. S. Bedi

      Pages 309-324

   3. Future Cloud Representation in the ECMWF Model

      • Graeme Kelly, Michael Tiedtke, Martin Miller, Jean-Jacques Morcrette

      Pages 325-339

   4. Analysis and Prediction of Rainfall in the Tropics

      • M. J. Manton

      Pages 341-347

   5. Understanding Perturbations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Over Tropical Continents

      • Kerry H. Cook

      Pages 349-360

   6. The Hydrological Cycle in the ECHAM3 Simulations of the Atmospheric Circulation

      • K. Arpe, L. Bengtsson, L. Dümenil, E. Roeckner

      Pages 361-377

   7. The Parameterization of the Precipitation Process in the LMD General Circulation Model

      • H. Le Treut, Z. X. Li, O. Boucher

      Pages 379-386

   8. Validation of Large-Scale Precipitation Fields in General Circulation Models

      • Mike Hulme

      Pages 387-405

3. Status of Precipitation Climatologies and Current Programmes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 407-407

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   2. The Global Precipitation Climatology Project

      • Phillip A. Arkin

      Pages 409-417

   3. Global and Terrestrial Precipitation Climatologies: An Overview and Some Intercomparisons

      • H. Hauschild, M. Reiss, B. Rudolf

      Pages 419-434

   4. Precipitation Distributions from Combined Airborne Microwave Radiometric/Radar Measurements and Ground Based VLF Sferics Observations in Support of NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

      • James A. Weinman, Jack L. Schols, Long S. Chiu

      Pages 435-452

4. Back Matter

   Pages 453-468

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In regard to global change, emphasis is generally placed on the increase in global temperature, but large changes in the distribution of precipitation are also likely to occur. Such changes have been redorded in the past by paleoclimatological studies or in the field of climatology. Different approaches to monitoring and forecasting the evolution of climate-scale precipitation are reviewed by paleoclimatologists, hydrologists, satellite meteorologists, and climate modellers.

• Climate Change
• Climatology
• Klimatologie
• Meteorologie
• Niederschläge
• Paläoklimatologie
• Precipitation
• Scale
• global change
• globale Veränderung
• meteorology
• pleoclimatology
• satellite
• temperature
• ecotoxicology

• Laboratorie de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

  Michel Desbois, Françoise Désalmand

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