Evaluation of Satellite Precipitation Products and Their Potential Influence on Hydrological Modeling over the Ganzi River Basin of the Tibetan Plateau

Table 2

Summary of the selected satellite-based precipitation products used in the present study.

Datasets	CMORPH-CRT	PERSIANN-CDR	3B42	3B42RT
Spatial resolution
Temporal resolution	1 daily	1 daily	3 hourly	3 hourly
Spatial coverage	W- E, N-S; Quasi-global	W- E, N-S; Quasi-global	W- E, N-S; Quasi-global	W- E, N-S; Quasi-global
Temporal coverage	1998–present	1983–present	1998–present	2002–present
Datasets source	Geostationary IR, PMW, TMI, SSM/I, AMSR-E, and AMSU-B	Geostationary IR, PMW, TMI, SSM/I, AMSU-B, and ANN	Geostationary IR, PMW, TCI,; SSM/I, AMSR-E, and AMSU-B	Geostationary IR, PMW, TMI, SSM/I, AMSR-E, and AMSU-B
Data download website	ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/CMORPH_V1.0/	ftp://data.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdr/persiann/files/	https://giovanni.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/	https://giovanni.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/
Reference	Xie et al. (2013)	Ashori et al. (2015)	Huffman et al. (2010)	Huffman et al. (2010)

IR: infrared radiance; PM: passive microwave; TMI: TRMM Microwave Imager; TCI: TRMM Combined Instrument; AMSR-E: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing Systems; SSM/I: Special Sensor Microwave Imager; AMSU-B: Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B; ANN: Artificial Neural Network.