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COMMENT ON ‘GLOBAL AND TERRESTRIAL PRECIPITATION: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF EXISTING CLIMATOLOGIES’ BY D. R. LEGATES
Author(s) -
WHETTON PETER
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(199702)17:2<163::aid-joc122>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - climatology , precipitation , latitude , northern hemisphere , southern hemisphere , environmental science , variation (astronomy) , climate model , climate change , geography , meteorology , geology , oceanography , physics , geodesy , astrophysics
In this comment it is argued that the estimates for precipitation over the oceans of the higher latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere givenin the climatology of Legates and Willmott are probably quite misleading. Evidence is presented which strongly suggests that the marked seasonal variation in precipitation given for the latitude band 50– 70°S in this climatology (with values much larger in summer than in winter) is unrealistic. Use of the Legates and Willmott climatology for purposes such as validating global climate model simulations is considered inadvisable for this zone. © 1997 by the Royal Meteorological Society.