• DOI:10.1175/JHM560.1
• Corpus ID: 18674044

The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales

@article{Huffman2007TheTM,
  title={The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales},
  author={George J. Huffman and David T. Bolvin and Eric J. Nelkin and David B. Wolff and Robert F. Adler and Guojun Gu and Yang Hong and Kenneth P. Bowman and Erich Franz Stocker},
  journal={Journal of Hydrometeorology},
  year={2007},
  volume={8},
  pages={38-55}
}

• G. Huffman, D. Bolvin, +6 authors E. Stocker
• Published 1 February 2007
• Environmental Science
• Journal of Hydrometeorology

Abstract The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) provides a calibration-based sequential scheme for combining precipitation estimates from multiple satellites, as well as gauge analyses where feasible, at fine scales (0.25° × 0.25° and 3 hourly). TMPA is available both after and in real time, based on calibration by the TRMM Combined Instrument and TRMM Microwave Imager precipitation products, respectively. Only the after-real-time product incorporates gauge data at the present. The dataset covers the latitude band 50°N–S for the period from 1998 to the delayed present. Early validation results are as follows: the TMPA provides reasonable performance at monthly scales, although it is shown to have precipitation rate–dependent low bias due to lack of sensitivity to low precipitation rates over ocean in one of the input products [based on Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B)]. At finer scales the TMPA is successful at approximately reproducing the s...