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标题：The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stationsa new environmental record for monitoring extremes
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作者：Chris Funk ; Pete Peterson ; Martin Landsfeld 等
期刊名称：Scientific Data
电子版ISSN：2052-4463
出版年度：2015
卷号：2
DOI：10.1038/sdata.2015.66
语种：English
出版社：Nature Publishing Group
摘要：The Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset builds on previous approaches to 鈥榮mart鈥?interpolation techniques and high resolution, long period of record precipitation estimates based on infrared Cold Cloud Duration (CCD) observations. The algorithm i) is built around a 0.05掳 climatology that incorporates satellite information to represent sparsely gauged locations, ii) incorporates daily, pentadal, and monthly 1981-present 0.05掳 CCD-based precipitation estimates, iii) blends station data to produce a preliminary information product with a latency of about 2 days and a final product with an average latency of about 3 weeks, and iv) uses a novel blending procedure incorporating the spatial correlation structure of CCD-estimates to assign interpolation weights. We present the CHIRPS algorithm, global and regional validation results, and show how CHIRPS can be used to quantify the hydrologic impacts of decreasing precipitation and rising air temperatures in the Greater Horn of Africa. Using the Variable Infiltration Capacity model, we show that CHIRPS can support effective hydrologic forecasts and trend analyses in southeastern Ethiopia.