TRMM and the global interannual variability of rain over the past five decades

Haddad, Ziad S.; Meagher, Jonathan P.; Adler, Robert F.; Smith, Eric A.; Im, Eastwood; Durden, Stephen L.

TRMM and the global interannual variability of rain over the past five decades

Haddad, Ziad S.; Meagher, Jonathan P.; Adler, Robert F.; Smith, Eric A.; Im, Eastwood; Durden, Stephen L.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/38693

Date: 2004-01

Keywords: TRMM; interannual variability

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.

Citation: American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, 15th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, Seattle, WA, January 11-15, 2004

Abstract:

In this paper we analyze the first five years of the first global land and ocean remote-sensing record of rainfall. We distill the information into a few objective indices, the first principal components of the rain anomaly, and extend them back in time to show how the global remote-sensing record implies that El Nino is indeed the major driver of the global interannual variability of rainfall.

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