**Acknowledgements**

The World Meteorological Organization and the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) international initiative provided financial support for SEMDP. The EORC/JAXA and the CPC/NOAA developed operational SEMDP extreme precipitation products.

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**Author details**

Pingping Xie6

Australia

Yuriy Kuleshov1,2,3\*, Toshiyuki Kurino4

(EORC/JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan

(CPC/NOAA), Washington, DC, USA

1 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

3 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

4 World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

\*Address all correspondence to: y.kuleshov@bom.gov.au

2 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne,

5 Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

6 Climate Prediction Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85824*
