This study aims to assess the performance of European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) Reanalysis fifth generation (ERA5) in terms progress made over its predecessor, ERA-Interim, East Africa (EA) reproducing observed rainfall. The rainfall used as reference are Global Precipitation Climatology (GPCC) and Climate Research Unit Time Series (CRU-TS). ERA5 predecessor is evaluat...

This study compared precipitation projections of CMIP5 and CMIP6 GCMs over Yulin City, China. The performance in replicating Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) climatology the city was evaluated using different statistical metrics. best performing common to both were finally selected subsequently downscaled GPCC resolution linear scaling method assess spatiotemporal changes basin. r...

Water-related soil erosion is a major environmental concern for catchments with barren topography in arid and semi-arid regions. With the growing interest irrigation infrastructure development regions, current study investigates runoff sediment yield Gomal River catchment, Pakistan. Data from precipitation gauge gridded products (i.e., GPCC, CFSR, TRMM) were used as input SWAT model to simulate...

We present COBS — a model of a concurrent object-based computational system with handshakes as elementary actions of inter-process communication. Processes are considered to be partial views of the system. Their communication by asynchronous message passing and variable sharing is modeled by elementary processes on the same abstraction level. The same acts of computation and communication can b...

We present a new algorithm to generate rainfall estimates with the thermal infrared (IR) band. The algorithm merges ancillary passive microwave (PMW) data from SSM/I with IR images to generate rainfall rates at the spatial and temporal resolutions of the IR sensor. Comparison against independent land-GPCC data shows how the algorithm slightly improves the GOES precipitation index (GPI) estimate...