The procedure is planned to start in January 1999. Similarly, small numbers of image lines were occasionally lost due to short-lived drops in the satellites' downlink signal. These included an antenna tracking problem for Meteosat-5 on 17th November resulting in the loss of 11 image slots and a major problem with the MPEF product generation schedule on 6th December resulting in abbreviated GPCP data sets being produced. 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.