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Overview

Pingping Xie is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these domains, their work focuses especially on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional involvement in Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's research topics include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Pingping Xie are:

  • Deep Learning for Bias Correction of Satellite Retrievals of Orographic Precipitation, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • End of the Day (EOD) Judgment for Daily Rain-Gauge Data, 2020, Atmosphere
  • Global Oceans, 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Global Ocean Monitoring and Prediction at NOAA Climate Prediction Center: 15 Years of Operations, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Characterizing the uncertainty of CMORPH products for estimating orographic precipitation over Northern California, 2024, Journal of Hydrology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Pingping Xie include Haonan Chen, Zeng-Zhen Hu, Boyin Huang, Caihong Wen, and Robert Cifelli.

The scientist's research has appeared multiple times in several key venues, including the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Atmosphere, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Journal of Hydrology, and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979-Present)

    Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman;Alfred Chang;Ralph Ferraro

  • The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

    Suranjana Saha;Shrinivas Moorthi;Hua-Lu Pan;Xingren Wu

  • Global Precipitation: A 17-Year Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Outputs

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • CMORPH: A Method that Produces Global Precipitation Estimates from Passive Microwave and Infrared Data at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution

    Robert J. Joyce;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin;Pingping Xie

  • Analyses of Global Monthly Precipitation Using Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Predictions

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • Global Land Precipitation: A 50-yr Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations

    Mingyue Chen;Pingping Xie;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin

  • The NCEP Climate Forecast System

    S. Saha;S. Nadiga;C. Thiaw;J. Wang

  • Assessing objective techniques for gauge-based analyses of global daily precipitation

    Mingyue Chen;Wei Shi;Pingping Xie;Viviane B. S. Silva

  • A Gauge-Based Analysis of Daily Precipitation over East Asia

    Pingping Xie;Akiyo Yatagai;Mingyue Chen;Tadahiro Hayasaka

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Analysis (New Version 2.3) and a Review of 2017 Global Precipitation

    Robert F. Adler;Mathew R.P. Sapiano;George J. Huffman;Jian Jian Wang

  • Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission (IMERG)

    George J. Huffman;David T. Bolvin;Dan Braithwaite;Kuo-Lin Hsu

  • The recent Sahel drought is real

    Aiguo Dai;Peter J. Lamb;Kevin E. Trenberth;Mike Hulme

  • Performance of high‐resolution satellite precipitation products over China

    Yan Shen;Anyuan Xiong;Ying Wang;Pingping Xie

  • Reprocessed, Bias-Corrected CMORPH Global High-Resolution Precipitation Estimates from 1998

    Pingping Xie;Robert Joyce;Shaorong Wu;Soo-Hyun Yoo

  • GPCP Pentad Precipitation analyses: An experimental dataset based on gauge observations and satellite estimates

    Pingping Xie;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin;Robert Adler

  • Global Monthly Precipitation Estimates from Satellite-Observed Outgoing Longwave Radiation

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project: First Algorithm Intercomparison Project

    Phillip A. Arkin;Pingping Xie

  • A conceptual model for constructing high‐resolution gauge‐satellite merged precipitation analyses

    Pingping Xie;An Yuan Xiong

  • CAMS–OPI: A Global Satellite–Rain Gauge Merged Product for Real-Time Precipitation Monitoring Applications

    John E. Janowiak;Pingping Xie

  • Kalman Filter–Based CMORPH

    Robert J. Joyce;Pingping Xie

  • An Intercomparison of Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates of Monthly Precipitation

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

Frequent Co-Authors

George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Chris Kidd
Chris Kidd Goddard Space Flight Center
Phillip A. Arkin
Phillip A. Arkin University of Maryland, College Park
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Kuolin Hsu
Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine
Yan Xue
Yan Xue National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Wanqiu Wang
Wanqiu Wang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert F. Adler
Robert F. Adler University of Maryland, College Park
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ralph Ferraro
Ralph Ferraro University of Maryland, College Park

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