Diurnal Variation of Seasonal Precipitation over the CONUS: A Comparison of Gauge Observations with TRMM Data

Table 1

The percent of different type of diurnal variation in Figure 2 (unit: %).

	No peak	Morning	Midday	Afternoon	Early-N	Midnight	Early-M
Spring	47	22	14	5	11	1	0
Summer	10	36	3	24	15	5	7
Autumn	33	27	12	15	7	6	0
Winter	35	19	33	5	4	4	0

Early-N is short for early night, and Early-M is short for early morning.