Abstract
AbstractDue to the considerable uncertainties inherent in the datasets describing the spatiotemporal distributions of precipitation in the drylands of China, this study presents a new merged monthly precipitation product with a spatial resolution of approximately 0.2° × 0.2° during 1980–2019. The newly developed precipitation product was validated at different temporal scales (e.g., monthly, seasonally, and annually). The results show that the new product consistently aligns with the spatiotemporal distributions reported by the Chinese Meteorological Administration Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) product and Multi-Source Weighted Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP). The merged product exhibits exceptional quality in describing the drylands of China, with a bias of −2.19 mm month−1 relative to MSWEP. In addition, the annual trend of the merged product (0.09 mm month−1 yr−1) also closely aligns with that of the MSWEP (0.11 mm month−1 yr−1) during 1980–2019. The increasing trend indicates that the water cycle and wetting process intensified in the drylands of China during this period. In particular, there was an increase in wetting during the period from 2001–2019. Generally, the merged product exhibits potential value for improving our understanding of the climate and water cycle in the drylands of China.
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