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A Case Study: Heavy Rainfall Event Comparison Between Daily Satellite Rainfall Estimation Products with IMD Gridded Rainfall Over Peninsular India During 2015 Winter Monsoon

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India Meteorological department (IMD) used INSAT-3D Metrological Satellite Imager data to drive two type rainfall estimation products viz-Hydro Estimate (HE) and INSAT Multi-Spectral Rainfall Algorithm (IMSRA) on half hourly rainfall rate and daily accumulated rainfall in millimeter (mm). Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrieval for GPM (IMERG) product is being derived by NASA and JAXA by using Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) satellites data. IMSRA and GPM (IMERG) are gridded data at 10 km spatial resolution and HE is available at pixel level (4 km at Nadir). IMD provides gridded rainfall data at 0.25° × 0.25° resolution which is based on wide coverage of 6955 actual observation. In present study, validation of INSAT-3D based Hydro Estimator (HE), INSAT Multi-Spectral Rainfall Algorithm (IMSRA) and Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrieval for GPM (IMERG) of Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) satellites are carried out with IMD gridded data set for heavy rainfall event during winter monsoon, over peninsular India (November–December 2015). In validation, Nash–Sutcliffe efficiencies (NSE), RMSE, Correlation, Skilled scores are calculated at grid level for heavy and very heavy rain categories and the values of NSE of HE (− 32.36, − 3.12), GPM (− 68.67, − 2.39) and IMSRA (− 0.02, 0.28) on 16th November 2015 and HE (− 13.65, − 1.69), GPM (− 43.79, − 2.94) and IMSRA (− 1.08, − 1.60) on 2nd Dec 2015, for heavy and very heavy rainfall. On both days, HE is showing better rainfall estimate compare to GPM for Heavy rainfall and GPM showing better estimation for very heavy rainfall events. In all the cases IMSRA is underestimating, if daily rain fall exceeded 75 mm.

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We thankful to DGM of India Meteorological Department for carrying this research work,and We also thankful to Global Precipitation Mission for providing the real time global data.

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    Anil Kumar Singh, Virendra Singh, K. K. Singh, Amit Kumar, Anil Kumar Soni, M. Sateesh & Chinmay Khadke

  2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 211002, India

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Singh, A.K., Singh, V., Singh, K.K. et al. A Case Study: Heavy Rainfall Event Comparison Between Daily Satellite Rainfall Estimation Products with IMD Gridded Rainfall Over Peninsular India During 2015 Winter Monsoon. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 46, 927–935 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-018-0751-9

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