Evaluation of topographical and seasonal feature using GPM IMERG and TRMM 3B42 over Far-East Asia

Abstract The acquisition of accurate precipitation data is essential for analyzing various hydrological phenomena and climate change. Recently, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellites were launched as a next-generation rainfall mission for observing global precipitation characteristics. The main objective in this study is to assess precipitation products from GPM, especially the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals (GPM-3IMERGHH) and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA), using gauge-based precipitation data from Far-East Asia during the pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons. Evaluation was performed by focusing on three different factors: geographical aspects, seasonal factors, and spatial distributions. In both mountainous and coastal regions, the GPM-3IMERGHH product showed better performance than the TRMM 3B42 V7, although both rainfall products showed uncertainties caused by orographic convection and the land-ocean classification algorithm. GPM-3IMERGHH performed about 8% better than TRMM 3B42 V7 during the pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons due to the improvement of loaded sensor and reinforcement in capturing convective rainfall, respectively. In depicting the spatial distribution of precipitation, GPM-3IMERGHH was more accurate than TRMM 3B42 V7 because of its enhanced spatial and temporal resolutions of 10 km and 30 min, respectively. Based on these results, GPM-3IMERGHH would be helpful for not only understanding the characteristics of precipitation with high spatial and temporal resolution, but also for estimating near-real-time runoff patterns.

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