Not exact matches
The most up - to - date temperature and
precipitation data is
available through Climate at a Glance.
If observations of
precipitation are
available, you'll want to use those, at the least, in a comparison with the reanalysis
data.
A recent article in Reviews of Geophysics presents a comprehensive review of the
data sources and estimation methods of 30 currently
available global
precipitation datasets.
Also used are version 15.0 of the 0.25 ° resolution E-OBS dataset for Europe (
available up to December 2016), the 2.5 ° resolution Global
Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) dataset as was
available up to March 2017 (with interim
data from September 2016) when downloaded in May 2017, and the 0.25 ° resolution NASA TMPA / 3B43 dataset for the 50 ° N to 50 ° S band that covered from 1998 to December 2016 when downloaded.
It was valuable because it was produced from easily
available data, total monthly
precipitation (P) and evaporation (E) to produce a P / E Index.
In fact, the Kathmandu temperature record extends back to 1879, while
precipitation data are
available continuously since the 1850's.
Evidence for widespread drought intensification is less clear and inherently difficult to confirm with
available data because of the increase of time - integrated
precipitation at most locations other than the subtropics.
I find looking at
available data that since the increase in absolute humidity is larger than the increase in
precipitation, with cloudiness pretty much a wash, that the evidence supports the existence of a water vapor feedback that is positive.
A week after the event the climateprediction.net team, together with the World Weather Attribution team, provided an initial assessment of the influence of anthropogenic climate change on the likelihood of one - day
precipitation events averaged over an area encompassing northern England and southern Scotland using
data and methods
available immediately after the event occurred.
The
data are from the NCDC «nClimDiv» divisional temperature —
precipitation — drought database,
available at monthly time resolution from January 1895 to the present (7, 25).
We analyze those realizations for which both temperature and
precipitation were
available from both experiments at the time of
data acquisition.
The England and Wales
Precipitation data is
available online here.