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MEASURING PRECIPITATION FROM SPACE ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 28 Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. W. Cramer, Department of Global Change and Natural Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. S. Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology – ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. García Herrera, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain M. Lal, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy. The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. MEASURING PRECIPITATION FROM SPACE EURAINSAT and the Future edited by V. Levizzani P. Bauer and F. Joseph Turk A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5834-9 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5835-6 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Some of the chapters are created by an officer or employee of US Government as part of his/her official duties and are therefore protected by copyright laws as mentioned under Title 17, Section 10-5 of the United States Copyright Law Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2007 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. CONTENTS Contributors Acknowledgments Preface SECTION 1: CLIMATE MONITORING....………………………………....... 1 European Commission Research for Global Climate Change Studies: Towards Improved Water Observations and Forecasting Capability….….. M. Schouppe and A. Ghazi xi xxiii xxv 1 3 2 Is Man Actively Changing the Environment?.............................................. D. Rosenfeld 7 3 The Global Precipitation Climatology Project………………………….… A. Gruber, B. Rudolf, M. M. Morrissey, T. Kurino, J. Janowiak, R. Ferraro, R. Francis, A. Chang, and R. F. Adler 25 4 Oceanic Precipitation Variability and the No