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Global Ocean Precipitation Frequency and Characteristics, by Petty

Grant Petty used the present-weather code values from COADS shipboard reports (1958-1991) to evaluate the frequencies and characteristics of global oceanic precipitation.


VARIABLES:
Hydrometeors
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Platform Observations
SOURCES: PURDUE/EAS
Department of Earth &Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University
PUBLICATIONS: Petty, Grant W., 1995: Frequencies and Characteristics of Global Oceanic Precipitation from Shipboard Present-Weather Reports. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1377-1396.

VOLUME: 14.16 MBytes
FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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