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Global Precipitation
The Monthly Global Precipitation Summaries are meant to routinely monitor and summarize global and regional precipitation totals and variations shortly after the month ends and place them in the context of longer-term climate variations from the inter-annual to the global change scale. The analyses are based on the Monthly global precipitation analysis Climate Data Record (CDR) produced by the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP), a multi-institutional development effort now involving the University of Arizona, NASA Goddard and the University of Maryland, mainly under NASA sponsorship. A key component making the Monthly Summary possible is the development and production of an Interim Climate Data Record (ICDR) just after the end of each month, using some preliminary data sets. This ICDR development and production is carried out by UMD and is sponsored by NOAA NCEI.
The Authors
Dr. Robert Adler
Robert Adler’s research at ESSIC/UMD focuses on the analysis of precipitation observations from space on global and regional scales, examining precipitation variations on inter-annual to climate-trend scales. He came to ESSIC in 2008 after a 35-year career at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he served as NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Project Scientist from 2000-2007, in addition to holding other research and management positions. He has also led, and is still involved with, the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) and is one of the developers of the TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA), the original microwave multi-satellite precipitation analysis. He also led efforts to study and monitor precipitation extremes and associated floods and landslides on a global scale. Dr. Adler has published over 180 papers in scientific journals on these topics. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and has received NASA Goddard’s William Nordberg Award for Earth Science and NASA Medals for Outstanding Leadership and for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Penn State and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University.
Dr. Guojun Gu
Guojun Gu’s research at ESSIC/UMD focuses on analyzing and exploring global precipitation variations and changes on interannual/interdecadal to climate-trend scales by means of satellite-based observations and climate model outputs. Dr. Gu has published over 60 papers in the field. He received his B.S. from Nanjing University and his Ph.D. from University of Miami.
