A temperature correction for Tucker's ocean rainfall estimates
Abstract A method suggested by G. B. Tucker of estimating rainfall from present weather observations is tested on 28 coastal stations. Tucker's method was developed from a group of stations in Great Britain; at other latitudes, due to air temperature differences, the Tucker estimates may be sev...
| Published in: | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1978
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.49710444117 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fqj.49710444117 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.49710444117 |
| Summary: | Abstract A method suggested by G. B. Tucker of estimating rainfall from present weather observations is tested on 28 coastal stations. Tucker's method was developed from a group of stations in Great Britain; at other latitudes, due to air temperature differences, the Tucker estimates may be several times too high or too low. Regression formulae are presented to adjust yearly, quarterly, and monthly mean precipitation values for air temperature. Corrected rainfall maps based upon ocean weather station data reveal a formerly undetected rainfall maximum in western mid‐latitudes of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. |
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