Despite being a planned event this nevertheless caused some MPEF problems and GPCP products were slightly affected. Dual satellite rainfall estimates generated and completed through December 1998. Work continues to improve processing capabilities and for full resolution data. Now available are daily rainfall estimates at 0.25 degrees for single and dual satellites. Look at the readme.txt files for details.
Continued enhancements are in progress.
Paper by Ferraro et al submitted to GRL was rejected. Paper by Li et al. Production of the 1 year data set will commence in January 1999. A follow on meeting will be held in Dallas in January 1999. I data have been received for the months of July to September 1998.