Gosset Marielle, Viarre J., Quantin G., Alcoba M. (2013). Evaluation of several rainfall products used for hydrological applications over West Africa using two high-resolution gauge networks. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 139 (673), p. 923-940. ISSN 0035-9009.
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Evaluation of several rainfall products used for hydrological applications over West Africa using two high-resolution gauge networks
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2013,
139 (673), p. 923-940 ISSN 0035-9009
The evaluation of rainfall products over the West African region will be an important component of the Megha-Tropiques (MT) Ground Validation (GV) plan. In this paper, two dense research gauge networks from Benin and Niger, integrated in the MT GV plan, are presented and are used to evaluate several currently available global or regional satellite-based rainfall products. Eight productsthe Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN), Climate Prediction Center Morphing method (CMORPH), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42 real-time and gauge-adjusted version, Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP), Climate Prediction Center (CPC) African Rainfall Estimate (RFE), Estimation des Precipitation par SATellite (EPSAT), and Global Precipitation Climatology Project One Degree Daily estimate (GPCP-1DD)are compared to the ground reference. The comparisons are carried out at daily, 1 degrees resolution, over the rainy season (June-September), between the years 2003 and 2010. The work focuses on the ability of the various products to reproduce salient features of the rainfall regime that impact the hydrological response. The products are analysed on a multi-criteria basis, focusing in particular on the way they distribute the rainfall within the season and by rain rate class. Standard statistical diagnoses such as the correlation coefficient, bias, root mean square error and Nash skill score are computed and the inter-annual variability is documented. Two simplified hydrological models are used to illustrate how the nature and structure of the product error impact the model output in terms of runoff (calculated using the Soil Conservation Service method, SCS, in Niger) or outflow (calculated with the modele du Genie Rural a 4 parametres Journalier', GR4J model, in Benin).
Plan de classement
Sciences du milieu [021]
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Hydrologie [062]
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Télédétection [126]
