Satellite-based Flood Modeling Using TRMM-based Rainfall Products 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2007, 7, 3416-3427 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2007 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper Satellite-based Flood Modeling Using TRMM-based Rainfall Products Amanda Harris 1, Sayma Rahman 2, Faisal Hossain 1,*, Lance Yarborough 3, Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou 2, Greg Easson 3 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505, USA 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA 3 University of Mississippi Geoinformatics Center, Department of Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fhossain@ Received: 30 November 2007 / Accepted: 18 December 2007 / Published: 20 December 2007 Abstract: Increasingly available and a virtually uninterrupted supply of satellite-estimated rainfall data is gradually becoming a cost-effective source of input for flood prediction under a variety of circumstances. However, most real-time and quasi-global satellite rainfall products are currently available at spatial scales ranging from 0.25o to 0.50o and hence, are considered somewhat coarse for dynamic hydrologic modeling of basin-scale flood events. This study assesses the question: what are the hydrologic implications of uncertainty of satellite rainfall data at the coarse scale? We investigated this question on the 970 km2 Upper Cumberland river basin of Kentucky. The satellite rainfall product assessed was NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) product called 3B41RT that is available in pseudo real time with a latency of 6-10 hours. We observed that bias adjustment of satellite rainfall data can improve application in flood prediction to some extent with the trade-off of more false alarms in peak flow. However, a more rational and regi