[HTML][HTML] Daily evaluation of 26 precipitation datasets using Stage-IV gauge-radar data for the CONUS

HE Beck, M Pan, T Roy, GP Weedon… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
New precipitation (P) datasets are released regularly, following innovations in weather
forecasting models, satellite retrieval methods, and multi-source merging techniques. Using …

[HTML][HTML] SM2RAIN–ASCAT (2007–2018): Global daily satellite rainfall data from ASCAT soil moisture observations

L Brocca, P Filippucci, S Hahn… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Long-term gridded precipitation products are crucial for several applications in hydrology,
agriculture and climate sciences. Currently available precipitation products suffer from space …

How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products

L Brocca, A Tarpanelli, P Filippucci, W Dorigo… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of irrigation is essential for ensuring food and water security, and to
cope with the scarcity of water resources, which is expected to exacerbate under the …

SM2RAIN-CCI: A new global long-term rainfall data set derived from ESA CCI soil moisture

L Ciabatta, C Massari, L Brocca… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate and long-term rainfall estimates are the main inputs for several applications, from
crop modeling to climate analysis. In this study, we present a new rainfall data set (SM2RAIN …

IMDLIB: An open-source library for retrieval, processing and spatiotemporal exploratory assessments of gridded meteorological observation datasets over India

S Nandi, P Patel, S Swain - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Addressing a pressing need for streamlined access to observed meteorological data in
India, we present IMDLIB, an open-source Python library that operates on gridded datasets …

[HTML][HTML] River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa

L Brocca, C Massari, T Pellarin, P Filippucci… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Satellite precipitation products have been largely improved in the recent years particularly
with the launch of the global precipitation measurement (GPM) core satellite. Moreover, the …

Evaluation and integration of the top-down and bottom-up satellite precipitation products over mainland China

L Zhang, X Li, Y Cao, Z Nan, W Wang, Y Ge, P Wang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The satellite precipitation products (SPPs) obtained from the satellite soil moisture data
through a bottom-up approach (ie, the SM2RAIN algorithm) have been developed and …

[HTML][HTML] A daily 25 km short-latency rainfall product for data-scarce regions based on the integration of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission rainfall and …

C Massari, L Brocca, T Pellarin… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Rain gauges are unevenly spaced around the world with extremely low gauge density over
developing countries. For instance, in some regions in Africa the gauge density is often less …

Assessment of GPM and SM2RAIN-ASCAT rainfall products over complex terrain in southern Italy

F Chiaravalloti, L Brocca, A Procopio, C Massari… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
The assessment of precipitation over land is extremely important for a number of scientific
purposes related to the mitigation of natural hazards, climate modelling and prediction …

[HTML][HTML] SM2RAIN-Climate, a monthly global long-term rainfall dataset for climatological studies

H Mosaffa, P Filippucci, C Massari, L Ciabatta… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
A reliable and accurate long-term rainfall dataset is an indispensable resource for
climatological studies and crucial for application in water resource management, agriculture …