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A temperature correction for Tucker's ocean rainfall estimates
Author(s) -
Dorman Clive E.,
Bourke Robert H.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49710444117
Subject(s) - climatology , latitude , precipitation , environmental science , air temperature , meteorology , geography , geology , geodesy
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.