Evaluating the suitability of TRMM satellite rainfall data for hydrological simulation using a distributed hydrological model in the Weihe River catchment in China

doi:10.1007/s11442-015-1161-3

摘要/Abstract

Abstract:

The objective of this study is to quantitatively evaluate Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data with rain gauge data and further to use this TRMM data to drive a Distributed Time-Variant Gain Model (DTVGM) to perform hydrological simulations in the semi-humid Weihe River catchment in China. Before the simulations, a comparison with a 10-year (2001-2010) daily rain gauge data set reveals that, at daily time step, TRMM rainfall data are better at capturing rain occurrence and mean values than rainfall extremes. On a monthly time scale, good linear relationships between TRMM and rain gauge rainfall data are found, with determination coefficients R² varying between 0.78 and 0.89 for the individual stations. Subsequent simulation results of seven years (2001-2007) of data on daily hydrological processes confirm that the DTVGM when calibrated by rain gauge data performs better than when calibrated by TRMM data, but the performance of the simulation driven by TRMM data is better than that driven by gauge data on a monthly time scale. The results thus suggest that TRMM rainfall data are more suitable for monthly streamflow simulation in the study area, and that, when the effects of recalibration and the results for water balance components are also taken into account, the TRMM 3B42-V7 product has the potential to perform well in similar basins.

Key words: rainfall, TRMM, distributed hydrological model, DTVGM, hydrological simulation, Weihe River catchment

. [J]. 地理学报(英文版), 2015, 25(2): 177-195.

Haigen ZHAO, Shengtian YANG, Zhiwei WANG, Xu ZHOU, Ya LUO, Linna WU. Evaluating the suitability of TRMM satellite rainfall data for hydrological simulation using a distributed hydrological model in the Weihe River catchment in China[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2015, 25(2): 177-195.

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Name	Min	Max	Description	Initial value
g₁	0.20	0.50	Coefficient of time-variant gain factor	0.25
R_a	0.10	0.60	Initial ratio of soil water in the soil layer	0.20
K_r	0.0001	0.001	Storage-outflow coefficient for the soil layer	0.00015
C₁	0.001	1.00	Dimensionless fitting parameter for ET	0.40
C₂	0.60	0.80	Dimensionless fitting parameter for ET	0.60
C₃	5.00	20.00	Dimensionless fitting parameter for ET	15.00

Year	Areal average (mm/d)		Standard deviation (mm)		Maximum daily rainfall (mm/d)		Maximum 5-day rainfall (mm/5d)		Annual rainfall (mm/y)
Year	Gauge	TRMM	Gauge	TRMM	Gauge	TRMM	Gauge	TRMM	Gauge	TRMM
2001	1.29	1.35	2.99	2.91	23.01	21.77	94.15	87.76	468.91	496.30
2002	1.26	1.24	3.36	2.90	36.12	23.91	105.36	94.05	458.57	456.12
2003	2.15	2.14	4.87	4.34	36.82	31.14	142.07	118.28	782.92	781.17
2004	1.31	1.35	3.19	2.94	23.92	27.73	90.46	86.92	480.03	493.15
2005	1.56	1.73	3.84	3.94	27.04	32.03	120.48	121.09	570.38	631.24
2006	1.52	1.36	3.32	2.68	21.62	18.82	94.00	77.42	555.04	497.86
2007	1.58	1.52	3.54	3.65	25.73	35.32	99.00	121.90	575.02	556.21
2008	1.26	1.44	3.09	3.42	22.67	25.64	88.16	109.00	462.70	525.65
2009	1.40	1.47	3.07	3.25	23.26	24.62	85.92	99.89	512.63	525.22
2010	1.61	1.55	4.27	3.42	44.29	22.65	133.07	95.49	589.15	565.08

Precipitation products	Scenario I			Scenario II
Precipitation products	NSCE	WBE (%)	CC	NSCE	WBE (%)	CC
Calibration period
Gauge	0.69	18.71	0.84	0.68	14.37	0.83
TRMM	0.59	21.96	0.78	0.60	18.02	0.78
Validation period
Gauge	0.55	-18.85	0.78	0.52	-23.85	0.74
TRMM	0.48	-15.38	0.71	0.50	-19.91	0.72

Precipitation products	Scenario I			Scenario II
Precipitation products	NSCE	WBE (%)	CC	NSCE	WBE (%)	CC
Gauge	0.64	-0.84	0.83	0.64	-5.58	0.82
TRMM	0.67	2.52	0.84	0.68	-1.78	0.84

Parameters	Gauge	TRMM
g₁	0.23	0.22
K_r	0.0006	0.0002
C₁	0.50	0.52
C₂	0.78	0.66
C₃	10.00	9.96
R_a	0.15	0.51