Paper Info
Title
Object-Based Assessment of Satellite Precipitation Products.
Abstract
An object-based verification approach is employed to assess the performance of the commonly used high-resolution satellite precipitation products: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN), Climate Prediction center MORPHing technique (CMORPH), and Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42RT. The evaluation of the satellite precipitation products focuses on the skill of depicting the geometric features of the localized precipitation areas. Seasonal variability of the performances of these products against the ground observations is investigated through the examples of warm and cold seasons. It is found that PERSIANN is capable of depicting the orientation of the localized precipitation areas in both seasons. CMORPH has the ability to capture the sizes of the localized precipitation areas and performs the best in the overall assessment for both seasons. 3B42RT is capable of depicting the location of the precipitation areas for both seasons. In addition, all of the products perform better on capturing the sizes and centroids of precipitation areas in the warm season than in the cold season, while they perform better on depicting the intersection area and orientation in the cold season than in the warm season. These products are more skillful on correctly detecting the localized precipitation areas against the observations in the warm season than in the cold season.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/rs8070547
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
precipitation,verification,object-based,remote sensing
Meteorology,Quantitative precipitation estimation,Satellite,PERSIANN,Remote sensing,Geology,Climatology,Precipitation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
7
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingjing Li100.68
Kuo-lin Hsu274.06
Amir AghaKouchak342.58
Soroosh Sorooshian4889.27