Title | Can satellite precipitation estimates capture the magnitude of extreme rainfall Events? |
Authors | Huang, Ziyue Zhang, Yuhao Xu, Jintao Fang, Xiang Ma, Ziqiang |
Affiliation | Guizhou Univ, Coll Big Data & Informat Engn, Guiyang, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Sch Earth & Space Sci, Inst Remote Sensing & Geog Informat Syst, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China Shaoxing Water Conservancy Bur, Shaoxing Hydrol Management Ctr, Shaoxing, Peoples R China Natl Meteorol Ctr, Typhoon & Ocean Predict Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China Int Res Ctr Big Data Sustainable Dev Goals, Beijing, Peoples R China |
Keywords | IMERG |
Issue Date | 3-Oct-2022 |
Publisher | REMOTE SENSING LETTERS |
Abstract | With the increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events, the likelihood of rainfall disasters is also increasing, presenting serious risks of casualties and economic losses. Therefore, exploring the capability of Satellite-based Precipitation Products (SPPs) to capture the magnitudes of extreme rainfall events is significant for preventing precipitation-related disasters. Selecting ten heavy rainfall events in wet seasons over China, this study evaluated the performance of mainstream SPPs from the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) and Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) in determining the extreme values of heavy rainfall events. The main findings are as follows: (1) SPPs significantly underestimated the magnitudes of extreme rainfalls events, with the most underestimated and closest values for certain events reaching only one-tenth and 50% of ground station values, respectively; (2) the evaluation of the top 1% hourly precipitation presented similar evident errors, with mean relative bias (BIAS) and root mean square error (RMSE) of approximately -80% and 40 mm hour(-1); (3) the spatiotemporal patterns of IMERG-Final were closer to those of the ground station and GSMaP-Now captured more maximum values of the ten events. Nevertheless, the accuracy of these SPPs is still not sufficient for the analysis of extreme rain disasters. |
URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/654564 |
ISSN | 2150-704X |
DOI | 10.1080/2150704X.2022.2123258 |
Indexed | SCI(E) |
Appears in Collections: | 地球与空间科学学院 |