How often does it really rain?

Kevin E. Trenberth; Yongxin Zhang

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0107.1

How often does it really rain?

Kevin E. Trenberth
, Yongxin Zhang

National Security Applications Program

National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Abstract

Hourly precipitation observations at 0.25° allow much improved estimates of the frequency of rain or snow. Precipitation occurs 11% of the time, but only 8% of the time over land.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	289-298
Number of pages	10
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	99
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0107.1
State	Published - Feb 2018

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