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Precipitation is the production of cloud microphysical processes, which is governed by cloud budget. The cloud microphysical processes are associated with thermal and water vapor processes, which are governed by thermal and water vapor budgets. The diagnostic surface rainfall equations are derived from the combinations of cloud budget with water vapor and thermal budgets in Sect. 2.1 (Gao and Li 2010). The precipitation equations are applied to the analysis of surface rainfall processes in SST29 in Sect. 2.2 (Zhou and Li 2009, 2011), SCSMEX in Sect. 2.3 (Wang et al. 2007), BILIS in Sect. 2.4 (Wang et al. 2009, 2010), and PSR in Sect. 2.5 (Shen et al. 2011).
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Li, X., Gao, S. (2012). Precipitation Equations and Process Analysis. In: Precipitation Modeling and Quantitative Analysis. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2381-8_2
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