Abstract
The need for frequent observations of precipitation is critical to many hydrological applications. The recently developed high resolution satellite-based precipitation algorithms that generate precipitation estimates at sub-daily scale provide a great potential for such purpose. This chapter describes the concept of developing high resolution Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks-Cloud Classification System (PERSIANN-CCS). Evaluation of PERSIANN-CCS precipitation is demonstrated through the extreme precipitation events from two hurricanes: Ernesto in 2006 and Katrina in 2005. Finally, the global near real-time precipitation data service through the UNESCO G-WADI data server is introduced. The query functions for viewing and accessing the data are included in the chapter.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology |
| Publisher | Springer Netherlands |
| Pages | 49-67 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789048129140 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Extreme precipitation
- Hurricane Katrina
- Image segmentation
- Probability matching method
- Self-organizing feature map
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences