Evaluation of Global Satellite Rainfall Products over Continental Europe

AbstractAn extensive evaluation of two global-scale high-resolution satellite rainfall products is performed using 8 yr (2003–10) of reference rainfall data derived from a network of rain gauges over Europe. The comparisons are performed at a daily temporal scale and 0.25° spatial grid resolution. The satellite rainfall techniques investigated in this study are the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 V6 (gauge-calibrated version) and the Climate Prediction Center morphing technique (CMORPH). The intercomparison and validation of these satellite products is performed both qualitatively and quantitatively. In the qualitative part of the analysis, error maps of various validation statistics are shown, whereas the quantitative analysis provides information about the performance of the satellite products relative to the rainfall magnitude or ground elevation. Moreover, a time series analysis of certain error statistics is used to depict the temporal variations of the accuracy of the two satellite t...

[1]  George J. Huffman,et al.  Evaluation of TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) performance in the Central Andes region and its dependency on spatial and temporal resolution , 2010 .

[2]  Y. Hong,et al.  The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales , 2007 .

[3]  J. Janowiak,et al.  The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) combined precipitation dataset , 1997 .

[4]  Steven A. Margulis,et al.  Validation and Error Characterization of the GPCP-1DD Precipitation Product over the Contiguous United States , 2004 .

[5]  J. Janowiak,et al.  COMPARISON OF NEAR-REAL-TIME PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES FROM SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL MODELS , 2007 .

[6]  Abdou Ali,et al.  Rainfall Estimation in the Sahel. Part I: Error Function , 2005 .

[7]  S. Sorooshian,et al.  Evaluation of PERSIANN system satellite-based estimates of tropical rainfall , 2000 .

[8]  F. Hossain,et al.  Investigating Error Metrics for Satellite Rainfall Data at Hydrologically Relevant Scales , 2008 .

[9]  Witold F. Krajewski,et al.  Evaluation of Biases of Satellite Rainfall Estimation Algorithms over the Continental United States , 2002 .

[10]  Grant W. Petty,et al.  Validation and Intercomparison of SSM/I Rain-Rate Retrieval Methods over the Continental United States , 1998 .

[11]  Yudong Tian,et al.  Multitemporal Analysis of TRMM-Based Satellite Precipitation Products for Land Data Assimilation Applications , 2007 .

[12]  Faisal Hossain,et al.  Benchmarking High-Resolution Global Satellite Rainfall Products to Radar and Rain-Gauge Rainfall Estimates , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

[13]  J. Janowiak,et al.  CMORPH: A Method that Produces Global Precipitation Estimates from Passive Microwave and Infrared Data at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution , 2004 .

[14]  P. Jones,et al.  A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950-2006 , 2008 .

[15]  Witold F. Krajewski,et al.  Initial Validation of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project Monthly Rainfall over the United States , 2000 .

[16]  Phillip A. Arkin,et al.  An Intercomparison and Validation of High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Estimates with 3-Hourly Gauge Data , 2009 .

[17]  Witold F. Krajewski,et al.  Radar hydrology: rainfall estimation. , 2002 .

[18]  J. Yamamoto.  An Alternative Measure of the Reliability of Ordinary Kriging Estimates , 2000 .

[19]  F. J. Turk,et al.  Toward improved characterization of remotely sensed precipitation regimes with MODIS/AMSR-E blended data techniques , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

[20]  C. Ropelewski,et al.  Validation of satellite rainfall products over East Africa's complex topography , 2007 .

[21]  Chris Kidd,et al.  Satellite Rainfall Estimation Using a Combined Pasive Microwave and Infrared Algorithm. , 2003 .

[22]  Nobuhiro Takahashi,et al.  The global satellite mapping of precipitation (GSMaP) project , 2005, Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05..

[23]  Denis A. Hughes,et al.  Comparison of satellite rainfall data with observations from gauging station networks , 2006 .

[24]  P. Xie,et al.  Global Precipitation: A 17-Year Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Outputs , 1997 .

[25]  Yang Hong,et al.  Evaluation of TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) and Its Utility in Hydrologic Prediction in the La Plata Basin , 2008 .