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Title

Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling

Abstract

This study is the first to reach a global view of the precipitation process partitioning, using a combination of satellite and global climate modeling data. The pathways investigated are (1) precipitating ice (ice/snow/graupel) that forms above the freezing level and melts to produce rain (S) followed by additional condensation and collection as the melted precipitating ice falls to the surface (R); (2) growth completely through condensation and collection (coalescence), warm rain (W); and (3) precipitating ice (primarily snow) that falls to the surface (SS). To quantify the amounts, data from satellite-based radar measurements—CloudSat, GPM, and TRMM—are used, as well as climate model simulations from the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) and the UK Met Office Unified Model (UM).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/dataset/id/93bf94ea-38b7-4d72-a4cb-8a9a8d4091fd.html

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Unique resource identifier

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Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > SNOW

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > TOTAL SURFACE PRECIPITATION RATE

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-03-15

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-180.0

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180.0

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90.0

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-90.0

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publication

effective date

2020-04-10

date type

modified

effective date

2020-03-20

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory

email address

heyms1@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - GDEX

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-07-21T12:31:13-06:00

Metadata language