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Evaluating Satellite Precipitation Estimates Over Oceans Using Passive Aquatic Listeners
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2023
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Source: Geophysical Research Letters, 50(6)
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Journal Title:Geophysical Research Letters
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Description:Passive aquatic listeners (PALs) provide high-quality, high-resolution estimates of precipitation over ocean regions, but have been underutilized as a reference data set for the evaluation of satellite-based precipitation estimates (SPEs). PALs are uniquely suited for this purpose due to their 5 km surface listening area when sampling at 1 km depth on drifting Argo Floats, providing rain rate estimates on a spatial scale similar to the native grid spacing of many SPEs. In this study we compare three SPE products (IMERG, CMORPH, and PDIR-Now) to PAL measurements. Evaluations are performed over tropical, extratropical, and global oceans at SPE native spatiotemporal resolution and longer time scales. We find the SPEs to have rain
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Source:Geophysical Research Letters, 50(6)
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ISSN:0094-8276;1944-8007;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND
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