Evaluation of Satellite Precipitation Product for Brazil and its Applicability for Hydrological Modeling in a Large-Scale Tropical/SubTropical Basin.
GPM-IMERG; MGB; Doce River Basin.
Rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission provide a new source of information with a high spatiotemporal resolution that overcomes the limitations of ground-based rainfall information worldwide. This study evaluates the performance of the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) V06 Final Run product over Brazil and investigates its applicability hydrological simulation by performing in a large-scale tropical/subtropical basin. The results showed that GPM-IMERG presents a tendency to underestimate the amount of precipitation for higher precipitation intensities, and its detection ability is spatially variant and sensitive for longitude. Moreover, GPM-IMERG showed better performances in regions under subtropical climates. The GPM-IMERG application for hydrological modeling context showed that GPM-IMERG could drive the hydrological model to capture the seasonal rainfall pattern and represent the spatial and temporal streamflow variations.