Figure 8.6: As in the Figure
8.5, for precipitation. The two left-most columns represent alternate observationally
based data sets, 15-year ECMWF reanalysis (“ECMWF”) and NCAR/NCEP reanalysis
(“NCEP”), compared with the baseline observations (Xie and Arkin, 1996).
From Covey et al. (2000b).