Regional performance of quantitative precipitation estimates from satellite observations

(1) University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom (C.Kidd@bham.ac.uk, +44 121 414 5528), (2) Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR), Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia (e.ebert@bom.gov.au), (3) ESSIC/Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (johnj@essic.umd.edu), (4) ESSIC/Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (dvila@essic.umd.edu)