Title
Improved rainfall and temperature satellite dataset in areas with scarce weather stations data: case study in Ancash, Peru
Other title
Mejora de los datos satelitales de precipitación y temperatura en áreas con baja disponibilidad de estaciones meteorológicas: caso de estudio en Ancash, Perú
Date Issued
26 July 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
Abstract
Rainfall and temperature variables play an important role in understanding meteorology at global and regional scales. However, the availability of meteorological information in areas of complex topography is difficult, as the density of weather stations is often very low. In this study, we focused on improving existing satellite products for these areas, using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) data for rainfall and Modern Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 (MERRA-2) data for air temperature. Our objective was to propose a model that improves the accuracy and correlation of satellite data with observed data on a monthly scale during 2012-2017. The improvement of rainfall satellite data was performed using 4 regions: region 1 Santa (R1Sn), region 2 Marañón (R2Mr), region 3 Pativilca (R3Pt) and region 4 Pacific (R4Pc). For temperature, a model based on the use of the slope obtained between temperature and altitude data was used. In addition, the reliability of the TRMM, GPM and MERRA-2 data was analyzed based on the ratio of the mean square error, PBIAS, Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) and correlation coefficient. The final products obtained from the model for temperature are reliable with R2 ranging from 0.72 to 0.95 for the months of February and August respectively, while the improved rainfall products obtained are shown to be acceptable (NSE≥0.6) for the regions R1Sn, R2Mr and R3Pt. However, in R4Pc it is unacceptable (NSE<0.4), reflecting that the additive model is not suitable in regions with low rainfall values.
Start page
17
End page
28
Volume
2022
Issue
60
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas Geografía física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85134796133
Source
Revista de Teledeteccion
ISSN of the container
11330953
Sponsor(s)
The authors acknowledge the financial support from the CONCYTEC - World Bank Project “Improvement and Expansion of the National Science Technology and Technological Innovation System Services”; 8682-PE, through its executing unit FONDECYT [Contract N°23-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-MU] of Permafrost Project and from the Newton-Paulet Fund and the NERC within the framework of the call E031-2018-01-NERC & Glacier Research, through its The authors acknowledge the financial support from the CONCYTEC-World Bank Project “Improvement and Expansion of the National Science Technology and Technological Innovation System Services”; 8682-PE, through its executing unit FONDECYT [Contract N° 23-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-MU] of Permafrost Project and from the Newton-Paulet Fund and the NERC within the framework of the call E031-2018-01-NERC & Glacier Research, through its executing unit FONDECYT [Contract N°08-2019-FONDECYT] of PeruGROWS project. We thank Rafael Tauquino, Ciro Fernández and Ricardo Villanueva for providing the meteorological data from the Center for Environmental Research for Development (CIAD), Santiago Antunez de Mayolo National University (UNASAM).
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Glaciares y Ecosistemas de Montaña