WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 AN INTERCOMPARISON OF GAUGE, RADAR AND SATELLITE RAINFALL IN THE TROPICS A. J. Pereira Filho 1, A. Negri 2 and P. T. Nakayama 3 1 USP, São Paulo, Brazil 2 NASA/GSFC, MD, USA 3 DAEE, São Paulo, Brazil
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 STUDY AREA
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 GAUGE DATA ACCUMULATION 1000 UTC UTC
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 SPWR DATA 5 Minutes Scans 3-km CAPPI 4-bit Rainfall Rates 2-km x 2-km Resolution
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 SATELLITE DATA GOES-East IR 30 Minute Scans 2-bit Rainfall Rates (CST) 0.0, 2.6 and 18.9 mm h -1 4-km x 4-km Resolution
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 GAUGE X RADAR
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 GAUGE X RADAR G = Gauge Mean RG = Buck Ratio RI = Mean Ratio
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 GAUGE X RADAR X SATELLITE
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 GAUGE X RADAR X SATELLITE
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Highest +
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Highest -
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Highest Difference
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Stratiform
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Maximum Areal Mean
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Sampling and 2-bit Info Content
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 RADAR X SATELLITE Total Rainfall 1 = Ground Clutter Filtering (2 and 3) 4 = Grind Clutter Contamination 5 = Range Effect 7 = Signal Processing
WORKSHOP ON PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS MADRID SEPTEMBER 2002 CONCLUSION Large rainfall events have relative small spatial variance Small rainfall events have relative large spatial variance Differences Radar x Satellite 70% due to phase Satellite less susceptible to systematic errors Limitations: Satellite: Information content and sampling Radar: Electronics, ground clutter, range effect,... Gauge: Representativity Next Step: Integration