Inter-comparison and assessment of gridded climate products over tropical forests during the 2015/2016 El Nino.

ABSTRACT: To understand the impacts of extreme climate events, it is first necessary to understand the spatio-temporal characteristics of the event. Gridded climate products are frequently used to describe climate patterns but have been shown to perform poorly over data-sparse regions such as tropical forests. Often, they are uncritically employed in a wide range of studies linking tropical forest processes to large-scale climate variability. Here, we conduct an inter-comparison and assessment of near-surface air temperature fields supplied by four state-of-the-art reanalysis products, along with precipitation estimates supplied by four merged satellite-gauge rainfall products. Firstly, spatio-temporal patterns of temperature and precipitation anomalies during the 2015-2016 El Niño are shown for eac

SUBMITTER: Burton C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6178435 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature