Validation of the abrupt change in GPCP
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Xungang Yin; Arnold Gruber
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) monthly precipitation exhibits a significant negative trend during 1979β2004 over southern tropical Africa from the Congo River Basin to the east coast. This trend appears as a more than 20% drop beginning in 1992 in the 6βyear and 9βy