Meteosat data. An extensive continental scale validation against synoptic station data of both the daily MIRA precipitation product and a normalized geostationary IR-only GOES
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This paper describes a new high-resolution multi-platform multi-sensor satellite rainfall product for Southern Africa covering the period 1993-2002. The Microwave Infra-Red Algorithm (MIRA) employed to generate the rainfall estimates combines high spatial and temporal resolution Meteosat infrared data with infrequent Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) overpasses. A transfer function relating Meteosat thermal infrared cloud brightness temperatures to SSM/I rainfall estimates is derived using co-located data from the two instruments and then applied to the full coverage of the Meteosat data. An extensive continental scale validation against synoptic station data of both the daily MIRA precipitation product and a normalized geostationary IR-only GOES Precipitation Index (GPI) demonstrates a consistent advantage using the former over the latter, for rain delineation. Potential uses for the resulting high-resolution daily rainfall dataset are discussed.
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Daily Precipitation over Southern Africa: A New Resource for Climate Studies
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