A high‐resolution global flood hazard model

CC Sampson, AM Smith, PD Bates… - Water resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Floods are a natural hazard that affect communities worldwide, but to date the vast majority
of flood hazard research and mapping has been undertaken by wealthy developed nations …

Evaluation and comparison of satellite-based rainfall products in Burkina Faso, West Africa

M Dembélé, SJ Zwart - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The performance of seven operational high-resolution satellite-based rainfall products–
Africa Rainfall Estimate Climatology (ARC 2.0), Climate Hazards Group InfraRed …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of multiple climate data sources for managing environmental resources in East Africa

SH Gebrechorkos, S Hülsmann… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Managing environmental resources under conditions of climate change and extreme climate
events remains among the most challenging research tasks in the field of sustainable …

A first large‐scale flood inundation forecasting model

GJP Schumann, JC Neal, N Voisin… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
At present continental to global scale flood forecasting predicts at a point discharge, with
little attention to detail and accuracy of local scale inundation predictions. Yet, inundation …

Length of growing period over Africa: Variability and trends from 30 years of NDVI time series

A Vrieling, J De Leeuw, MY Said - Remote sensing, 2013 - mdpi.com
The spatial distribution of crops and farming systems in Africa is determined by the duration
of the period during which crop and livestock water requirements are met. The length of …

How accurately can satellite products (TMPA and IMERG) detect precipitation patterns, extremities, and drought across the Nepalese Himalaya?

S Sharma, N Khadka, K Hamal… - Earth and Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to assess the accuracy of two satellite‐based precipitation products
(SBPPs), that is, Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM)‐based Multi‐satellite …

Accounting for spatiotemporal errors of gauges: A critical step to evaluate gridded precipitation products

G Tang, A Behrangi, D Long, C Li, Y Hong - Journal of hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Rain gauge observations are commonly used to evaluate the quality of satellite precipitation
products. However, the inherent difference between point-scale gauge measurements and …

Evaluation of GPM-Era satellite precipitation products on the southern slopes of the Central Himalayas against rain gauge data

S Sharma, Y Chen, X Zhou, K Yang, X Li, X Niu, X Hu… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission provides high-resolution precipitation
estimates globally. However, their accuracy needs to be accessed for algorithm …

Evaluation of five satellite-based precipitation products in two gauge-scarce basins on the Tibetan Plateau

P Bai, X Liu - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The sparse rain gauge networks over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) cause challenges for
hydrological studies and applications. Satellite-based precipitation datasets have the …

[HTML][HTML] A diagnostic evaluation of precipitation in CORDEX models over southern Africa

EA Kalognomou, C Lennard, M Shongwe… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Doms, G., J. Forstner, E. Heise, H.-J. Herzog, M. Raschendorfer, R. Schrodin, T. Reinhardt,
and G. Vogel, 2007: A description of the nonhydrostatic regional model LM (version 3.20) …