The importance of satellite datasets as alternative sources of precipitation information has been argued in numerous studies. Future developments in satellite precipitation algorithms as well as utilization of satellite data in operational applications rely on a more in-depth understanding of satellite errors and biases across different spatial and temporal scales. This paper investigates the c...

Precipitation data sets representing four spatial resolutions were used to evaluate the performance of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) on the basis of reproducing measured streamflow, and to show differences in model parameters when different precipitation data sets are used to calibrate the model. The experiment was conducted on the 786 km2 Ft. Cobb Reservoir experimental watershed (...

Global precipitation data sets with high spatial and temporal resolution are needed for many applications, but they were unavailable before the recent creation of several such satellite products. Here, we evaluate four different satellite data sets of hourly or 3-hourly precipitation (namely CMORPH, PERSIANN, TRMM 3B42 and a microwave-only product referred to as MI) by comparing the spatial pat...

Question: How can mammalian community characteristics be used to estimate regional precipitation? Data: Global distribution data of large mammals and their ecomorphology; global climate data. Research methods: Non-linear regression-tree analysis and linear regression. Conclusions: The methods unravelled the complex relationships between the environment and the characteristics of mammalian commu...

• Four types of temperature sampling are compared for scaling precipitation extremes. The peak structure remains in the extreme precipitation‐temperature relationship. IMERG’s daily rate is close to observation. Against expectations, 30-min precipitations much smaller. This study explores sensitivity (termed factor, SF) and 30-minute extremes with several variables, i.e., within-day surface air...

Satellite-based precipitation monitoring at high spatial resolution is crucial for assessing the water and energy cycles at the global and regional scale. Based on the recently released 7th version of the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) product of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), and the monthly precipitation data (3B43) are evaluated using observed monthly precipit...

comparability analyses are performed to investigate similarities/differences of the standard precipitation index (spi) and the reconnaissance drought index (rdi), respectively, utilizing precipitation and ratio of precipitation over potential evapotranspiration (et0). data are from six synoptic stations in south khorasan province in iran.at the first for calculating spi, the elevation-precipita...

Watershed hydrologic and fate-andtransport models are widely used to forecast water quantity and quality responses to alternative land use and climate change scenarios. The ability of such tools to forecast changes in ecosystem services with reasonable accuracy depends on calibrating reliable simulations of streamflow, which in turn require accurate climatic forcing data. Precipitation is widel...