Statistical Comparison of IMERG Precipitation Products with Optical Rain Gauge Observations over Kototabang, Indonesia

Authors

  • Helmi Yusnaini Department of Physics, Universitas Andalas, Limau Manis, Padang 25163, Indonesia., Indonesia
  • Ravidho Ramadhan Department of Physics, Universitas Andalas, Limau Manis, Padang 25163, Indonesia., Indonesia
  • Marzuki Marzuki Department of Physics, Universitas Andalas, Limau Manis, Padang 25163, Indonesia, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0266-812X
  • Ayu Putri Ningsih Department of Physics, Universitas Andalas, Limau Manis, Padang 25163, Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Hiroyuki Hashiguchi Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan., Japan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-0955
  • Toyoshi Shimomai Department of Electronic and Control Systems Engineering, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan., Japan
  • Mutya Vonnisa Department of Physics, Universitas Andalas, Limau Manis, Padang 25163, Indonesia., Indonesia
  • Harmadi Harmadi Department of Physics, Universitas Andalas, Limau Manis, Padang 25163, Indonesia., Indonesia
  • Wiwit Suryanto Department of Physics, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia., Indonesia
  • Sholihun Sholihun Department of Physics, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia., Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25077/jif.14.1.10-20.2022

Abstract

Satellite-based precipitation estimates play a crucial role in many hydrological and numerical weather models, especially to overcome the scarcity of rain gauge data. Globally gridded rainfall product from Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) (IMERG) has been used in a wide range of hydrological applications. However, the IMERG is inherently prone to errors and biases. This study evaluated the performance of the IMERG-Final run (IMERG-F) product to estimate rainfall in a mountainous area of Sumatra. Validation was carried out using optical rain gauge (ORG) data for 15 years (2002-2016), at Kototabang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. In general, IMERG-F overestimated rainfall in all time scales. The longer the time scale was, the better the performance of IMERG-F we obtained. This feature was indicated by all quantities of continuous and categorical statistical matrices used. The performance of IMERG-F was lower than in other areas of the Maritime Continent, except for the probability of detection (POD) value. IMERG-F could detect rain very well, including for daily and hourly data, but the false alarm rate (FAR) was also relatively high. Such high FAR value may indicate a significant small-scale spatial rainfall variability in mountainous area of Sumatra.

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2021-11-28

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Yusnaini, H., Ramadhan, R., Marzuki, M., Ningsih, A. P., Hashiguchi, H., Shimomai, T., Vonnisa, M., Harmadi, H., Suryanto, W., & Sholihun, S. (2021). Statistical Comparison of IMERG Precipitation Products with Optical Rain Gauge Observations over Kototabang, Indonesia. JURNAL ILMU FISIKA | UNIVERSITAS ANDALAS, 14(1), 10–20. https://doi.org/10.25077/jif.14.1.10-20.2022

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