How Well Do Gridded Datasets of Observed Daily Precipitation Compare over Australia?

Figure 6

Plots of quantiles of the in situ gauge observations at five different locations: Sydney, Alice Springs, Perth, Cairns, and Hobart, against the quantiles of all ten gridded datasets in this study, including AWAP, TRMM, and GPCP, and the seven new gridded datasets. The symbols vary based on the type of dataset: triangle for AWAP, square for the merged datasets TRMM and GPCP, circle for the interpolated datasets, and a diamond for the grid average. The stations were chosen to represent the varying climatic regions across Australia. For each QQ pair, quantiles are plotted, where equals the number of nonmissing values in the dataset with the most missing values. All numbers have units of mm.