Abstract
After summarizing the history of the cartographic representation of global and continental-scale precipitation, and demonstrating in so doing the gradual refinements used in deducing annual and seasonal variations of rainfall over large areas, a presentation is made of a gridding technique for evaluating precipitation over the continents and the oceans based on the subdivision of the Earth’s surface into nearly 2600 sectors and data obtained prior to 1965. The results of this analysis, comprising the record of the monthly meridional distribution of rainfall, and maps of mean precipitation — variously ordered to show the monthly and annual variations in respect to latitudinal zones as well as land and sea surfaces, are presented and described.
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Jaeger, L. (1983). Monthly and Areal Patterns of Mean Global Precipitation. In: Street-Perrott, A., Beran, M., Ratcliffe, R. (eds) Variations in the Global Water Budget. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6954-4_9
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