ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We appreciate the extensive efforts by the developers of the ground, satellite, and reanalysis precipitation datasets to make their products available. The study is funded by the Global Water Futures program in Canada, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 71461010701 and 41471430), and the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1508105).
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