Advances in Meteorology

Research Article

Meteorological Drought Monitoring Based on Satellite CHIRPS Product over Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Table 2

Common satellite rainfall products for rainfall estimation (source: [67]).


No.	Product name	Operational period	Temporal resolution	Spatial resolution	Reference(s)

1	CFSR	1979–Present	1 h	0.5° × 0.5°	[68]
2	CHIRPS	1980–Present	1 day	0.05° × 0.05°	[69]
3	CMAP	1979–2009	5 days	2.5° × 2.5°	[70]
4	CMORPH	2002–Present	30 min	0.07° × 0.07°	[71]
5	CPC-RFE 2.0	2001–Present	1 day	0.10° × 0.10°	[72]
5	GPCP 1DD	1997–2008	1 day	1.0° × 1.0°	[73, 74]
6	GPCP-V2	1979–2008	1 month	0.5° × 0.5°	[73, 74]
7	GSMap	2003–2006	1 h	2.5° × 2.5°	[75]
8	Hydro Estimator	2006–Present	15 min	0.04° × 0.04°	[76]
9	IMERG	2000–Present	30 min	0.1° × 0.1°	[77]
10	MPE	2004–Present	15 min	0.03° × 0.03°	[78]
11	MSWEP-V1.1	1979–2015	3 h	0.25° × 0.25°	[79]
12	MWCOMB	2002–Present	3 h	0.25° × 0.25°	[80]
13	NRL_Blended	2003–Present	3 h	0.25° × 0.25°	[81]
14	PERSIAN	2000–Present	1 h	0.25° × 0.25°	[82]
15	TAMSAT	1983–Present	10 days	0.25° × 0.25°	[83]
16	TRMM-TMPA 3B42	1998–Present	3 h	0.25° × 0.25°	[84, 85]
17	TRMM-TMPA 3B42-RT	2000–Present	3 h	0.25° × 0.25°	[84, 85]
18	TRMM-TMPA 3B43	1998–Present	1 month	0.25° × 0.25°	[84, 85]

Note. CFSR (Climate Forecast System Reanalysis), CMAP (merged Analysis of Precipitation), MORPH (Climate Prediction Centre MORPHing), CPC-RFE (Climate Prediction Centre-RainFall Estimation), GPCP 1DD (Global Precipitation Climatology Project 1 Degree Daily), GPCP-V2 (Global Precipitation Climatology Project-version 2), GSMap (Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation), MPE (Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimate), MWCOMB (simple average of the microwave-based estimates used in creating the CMORPH), NRL-Blended (Naval Research Laboratory-Blended), PERSIANN (Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Network), TAMSAT (Temporal Applications of Meteorology using SATellite), Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) TMPA (Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis), TMPA-RT (TMPA-Real Time), MSWEP (Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation), Integrated Multi-satellites Retrievals for GPM (IMERG), and CHIPS(Rainfall Estimates from Rain Gauge and Satellite Observations).