Validation of new satellite rainfall products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Ayehu, Getachew Tesfaye; Tadesse, Tsegaye; Gessesse, Berhan; Dinku, Tufa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1921-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1921-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1921-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

Research article

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06 Apr 2018

Research article |

| 06 Apr 2018

Validation of new satellite rainfall products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Getachew Tesfaye Ayehu, Tsegaye Tadesse, Berhan Gessesse, and Tufa Dinku

Data sets

TAMSAT daily rainfall estimates (version 2.0) dataset R. Maidment, E. Black, and E. Tarnavsky https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.108

TAMSAT daily rainfall estimates (version 3.0) datasets R. Maidment, E. Black, and E. Tarnavsky https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.112

Data service NMAE http://www.ethiomet.gov.et

TAMSAT data archive TAMSAT https://www.tamsat.org.uk/data/archive

Short summary

The intent of this research paper is to rigorously validate the performance of satellite rainfall products to be used for various operational applications in data-scarce regions of the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin in Ethiopia. It was found that satellite rainfall products could be used as an alternative source of rainfall data in areas with no or poor ground observations. Their reliable performance could make more appropriate for various functions in complex topographic areas of the UBN basin.