Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation

A merging procedure is applied to five daily rainfall estimates achieved via SM2RAIN applied to the soil moisture products obtained by the Advanced SCATterometer, the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2, the Soil Moisture Active and Passive mission, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission...

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Main Authors: Tarpanelli, A., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Filippucci, P., Amarnath, Giriraj, Brocca, L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89284
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author Tarpanelli, A.
Massari, C.
Ciabatta, L.
Filippucci, P.
Amarnath, Giriraj
Brocca, L.
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Brocca, L.
Ciabatta, L.
Filippucci, P.
Massari, C.
Tarpanelli, A.
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Massari, C.
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Amarnath, Giriraj
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description A merging procedure is applied to five daily rainfall estimates achieved via SM2RAIN applied to the soil moisture products obtained by the Advanced SCATterometer, the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2, the Soil Moisture Active and Passive mission, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission and backscattering observations of RapidScat. The precipitation estimates are evaluated against dense ground networks in the period ranging from April to December, 2015, in India and in Italy, at 0.25°/daily spatial/temporal resolution. The merged product derived by combining the different SM2RAIN rainfall products shows better results in term of statistical and categorical metrics with respect to the use of the single products. A good agreement with reference to ground observations is obtained, with median correlations equal to 0.65 and 0.77 in India and in Italy, respectively. The merged dataset is found to slightly outperform those of the IMERG product of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission underlying the large potential of the proposed approach.
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spelling CGSpace892842024-05-01T08:18:19Z Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation Tarpanelli, A. Massari, C. Ciabatta, L. Filippucci, P. Amarnath, Giriraj Brocca, L. satellite observation soil moisture rain estimation remote sensing precipitation performance indexes A merging procedure is applied to five daily rainfall estimates achieved via SM2RAIN applied to the soil moisture products obtained by the Advanced SCATterometer, the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2, the Soil Moisture Active and Passive mission, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission and backscattering observations of RapidScat. The precipitation estimates are evaluated against dense ground networks in the period ranging from April to December, 2015, in India and in Italy, at 0.25°/daily spatial/temporal resolution. The merged product derived by combining the different SM2RAIN rainfall products shows better results in term of statistical and categorical metrics with respect to the use of the single products. A good agreement with reference to ground observations is obtained, with median correlations equal to 0.65 and 0.77 in India and in Italy, respectively. The merged dataset is found to slightly outperform those of the IMERG product of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission underlying the large potential of the proposed approach. 2017-10 2017-11-09T08:43:45Z 2017-11-09T08:43:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89284 en Open Access Elsevier Tarpanelli, A.; Massari, C.; Ciabatta, L.; Filippucci, P.; Amarnath, Giriraj; Brocca, L. 2017. Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation. Advances in Water Resources, 108:249-255. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.08.010
spellingShingle satellite observation
soil moisture
rain
estimation
remote sensing
precipitation
performance indexes
Tarpanelli, A.
Massari, C.
Ciabatta, L.
Filippucci, P.
Amarnath, Giriraj
Brocca, L.
Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
title Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
title_full Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
title_fullStr Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
title_full_unstemmed Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
title_short Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
title_sort exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation
topic satellite observation
soil moisture
rain
estimation
remote sensing
precipitation
performance indexes
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89284
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