TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis

Quantifying rainfall from remotely sensed data is crucial for regions where meteorological stations are scarce. This might be one of the only options for analysing rainfall patterns at different temporal and spatial scales in data-scarce environments, particularly in developing countries. The Tropic...

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Autores principales: Heidinger, Haline, Yarleque, C., Posadas, A., Quiróz, R.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Informa UK Limited 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/35860
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author Heidinger, Haline
Yarleque, C.
Posadas, A.
Quiróz, R.
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Posadas, A.
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Yarleque, C.
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description Quantifying rainfall from remotely sensed data is crucial for regions where meteorological stations are scarce. This might be one of the only options for analysing rainfall patterns at different temporal and spatial scales in data-scarce environments, particularly in developing countries. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) provides rainfall estimation over the tropics. Rainfall estimates from the TRMM satellite exhibit inaccuracies over topographically complex regions, thus warranting suitable corrections. Multi-resolution analysis (MRA) was applied to improve TRMM 3B42 daily rainfall estimation at 19 meteorological stations located over the Andean Plateau. The detailed signal from each meteorological station was added to the trend signal of each TRMM data cell. Comparing raw and corrected TRMM with gauged rainfall revealed that wavelet-based correction of TRMM 3B42 on average improved several metrics: entropy difference (15.45−1.32), determination coefficient (0.07−0.92), bias (0.68−1.01) and relative mean absolute error (RMAE, 0.86−0.59). The entropy difference of corrected TRMM and gauged rainfall was less than 5%, even when TRMM correction was performed with noise from a station located up to 565 km away from the TRMM cell. This entropy difference corresponded to an average bias of less than 10% in the rainfall estimation.
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spelling CGSpace358602023-09-08T10:07:15Z TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis Heidinger, Haline Yarleque, C. Posadas, A. Quiróz, R. agriculture climate rainfall rainfall patterns Quantifying rainfall from remotely sensed data is crucial for regions where meteorological stations are scarce. This might be one of the only options for analysing rainfall patterns at different temporal and spatial scales in data-scarce environments, particularly in developing countries. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) provides rainfall estimation over the tropics. Rainfall estimates from the TRMM satellite exhibit inaccuracies over topographically complex regions, thus warranting suitable corrections. Multi-resolution analysis (MRA) was applied to improve TRMM 3B42 daily rainfall estimation at 19 meteorological stations located over the Andean Plateau. The detailed signal from each meteorological station was added to the trend signal of each TRMM data cell. Comparing raw and corrected TRMM with gauged rainfall revealed that wavelet-based correction of TRMM 3B42 on average improved several metrics: entropy difference (15.45−1.32), determination coefficient (0.07−0.92), bias (0.68−1.01) and relative mean absolute error (RMAE, 0.86−0.59). The entropy difference of corrected TRMM and gauged rainfall was less than 5%, even when TRMM correction was performed with noise from a station located up to 565 km away from the TRMM cell. This entropy difference corresponded to an average bias of less than 10% in the rainfall estimation. 2012-07-20 2014-06-11T06:34:06Z 2014-06-11T06:34:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/35860 en Limited Access Informa UK Limited Heidinger H, Yarlequé C, Posadas A, Quiroz R. 2012. TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33(14):4583-4602.
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climate
rainfall
rainfall patterns
Heidinger, Haline
Yarleque, C.
Posadas, A.
Quiróz, R.
TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis
title TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis
title_full TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis
title_fullStr TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis
title_full_unstemmed TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis
title_short TRMM rainfall correction over the Andean Plateau using wavelet multi-resolution analysis
title_sort trmm rainfall correction over the andean plateau using wavelet multi resolution analysis
topic agriculture
climate
rainfall
rainfall patterns
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/35860
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