Retrieving high resolution rainfall data for Ecuador using GOES-16 and IMERG data

Abstract:

Accurate rainfall information in high spatio-temporal resolution is important for water resource management, particularly in water-scarce remote areas which are characterized by a coarse network of operational precipitation gauge stations. For such regions, satellite-based rainfall products potentially represent a source for reliable and area-wide data on rainfall. The poster presents a new satellite-based precipitation algorithm for semi-arid regions in Ecuador with the elevation range between 12 to 5700 asl The algorithm relies on the combination of precipitation information from the Integrated Multi-SatEllite Retrieval for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)(IMERG) and infrared (IR) data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 (GOES-16). The algorithm is developed to (i) classify the rainfall area and then (ii) to assign the rainfall rate. For the period between 19.04. 2017 to 19.04. 2018 …

Año de publicación:

2020

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