آنالیز مکانی‏- زمانی دقت داده ‏های ماهواره‏ای TRMM برای برآورد شدت خشک‏سالی مبتنی بر بارش در محدودۀ ایران مرکزی

نوع مقاله : مقاله کامل

نویسندگان

1 دانش ‏آموختة دکتری علوم و مهندسی آبخیزداری، دانشکدة منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه یزد

2 استاد گروه آبخیزداری دانشکدة منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه یزد

3 استادیار گروه مدیریت مناطق خشک و بیابانی دانشکدة منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه یزد

4 استادیار گروه مهندسی آب دانشگاه گیلان

چکیده

بیشتر سیستم‏های ارزیابی خشک‏سالی عمدتاً بر مبنای داده‏های بارش استوارند. تحقیق حاضر، با هدف آنالیز مکانی و زمانی دقت داده‏های باران ماهوارة TRMM در محدودة ایران مرکزی برای تهیة نقشة توزیع مکانی خشک‏سالی مبتنی بر بارش در طی دورة آماری 2001 ـ 2005 انجام شده است. در ایـن پژوهش، از داده‏های بارش ماهانة 50 ایستگاه سینوپتیک و سری داده‏های ماهانة TRMM-3B43 V7 با مقیاس مکانی 0.25°×0.25° استفاده شده است. پس از پردازش اولیه، نخست داده‏های ماهواره‏ای و داده‏های مشاهده‏ای باران در سه مقیاس زمانی ماهانه، فصلی، و سالانه مقایسة تطبیقی شد. پس از حصول اطمینان از دقت بالای این داده‏ها، نقشة شدت خشک‏سالی مبتنی بر بارش با استفاده از داده‏های ماهواره‏ای به‏دست آمد. ارزیابی دقت نقشة توزیع مکانی خشک‏سالی مبتنی بر داده‏های بارش ماهواره‏ای بر اساس مقایسه با نقشة توزیع مکانی خشک‏سالی مبتنی بر داده‏های بارش زمینی و داده‏های رطوبت خاک انجام گرفته است. نتایج بررسی معیارهای ارزیابی نشان داد که شدت خشک‏سالی برآوردشده به وسیلة داده‏های TRMM در انطباق با نقشة شدت خشک‏سالی حاصل از داده‏های بارش و داده‏های رطوبت زمینی از بیشترین ضریب همبستگی به‏ترتیب 94/0 و 71/0 و همچنین کمترین خطای برآوردی به‏ویژه در کلاس‏های شدت خشک‏سالی ملایم، متوسط، و شدید برخوردار بوده است.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Accuracy of TRMM Satellite Data to Estimate the Severity of a Drought Based on Precipitation in Central Iran

نویسندگان [English]

  • Yaghoub Niazi 1
  • Ali Talebi 2
  • Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari 3
  • Majid Vazifedoust 4
1 PhD of Watershed Management Sciences & Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, Yazd University, Iran
2 Professor of Watershed Management Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, Yazd University, Iran
3 Assistant Professor of Arid Land and Desert Management, Yazd University, Iran
4 Assistant Professor of Water Engineering, Guilan University, Iran
چکیده [English]

Introduction
Precipitation data have been widely used in many earth science applications ranging from crop yield estimates, tropical infectious diseases, drought and flood monitoring. However, in many tropical regions and parts of the mid-latitudes, rainfall estimates still remain a major challenge due to sparse rain gauges. To better develop applications for these regions, it is necessary to have rainfall data with adequate spatial and temporal resolutions. Precipitation data plays the key role in drought monitoring. Rain gauges are the main measuring methods for precipitation but they are concentrated in developed countries and are spare in developing countries and remote areas in the world. Researchers have shown that remote sensing techniques using space-borne sensors can provide an excellent complement to continuous monitoring of rain events both spatially and temporally. Microwave and Visible/Infrared are the main forms of remote sensing technologies; both have varied advantages in terms of imaging accuracy and spatial-temporal resolutions. Thus, the fine spatial-temporal precipitation products need the coalescence of both. Tropical Precipitation Measuring Mission (TRMM) carrying sensors on precipitation provides the opportunity for fine spatial-temporal precipitation products. In this research for Central Iran, the precipitation data of TRMM satellite was evaluated and used to estimate the severity of a drought based on precipitation.
 Materials and Methods
Central Iran is located between 27N-37N latitudes and 48E-61E longitudes and has an area of about 837,184 km2. There are 50 synoptic stations within the area. The data are including monthly precipitation depth from both synoptic stations and TRMM data (3B43 V.7, in ASCII format). A five year (2001–2005) period were chosen for the analysis. The accuracy of precipitation data that are used from synoptic stations and TRMM satellite are provided by the source provider. Firstly, the evaluation of TRMM satellite data was measured using coefficient of determination (R2), mean error (ME), mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) in 95% confidence levels. Then, TRMM remote sensing data are used to provide the required data for precipitation drought index in central Iran to make a mapping of the spatial distribution of drought. Finally, accuracy of the PDI drought index based on satellite data carried out using the evaluation criteria was compared with drought spatial distribution map of the PDI based on ground-based precipitation measurements data and soil moisture values of 50 synoptic stations.
Results and Discussion
In this study, monthly rainfall values estimated by satellite products were copared with those of rain gauge observations in Central Iran. The validation of TRMM 3B43 data were performed at monthly, season and annual scales. The average of monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall for all selected synoptic stations and TRMM data were compared during the period 2001-2005. TRMM data at all time steps, except August, estimates the average of monthly rainfall more than observed data. The correlation coefficient between the average of monthly rainfall, seasonal and annual rain gauge and TRMM has shown that this ratio is variable from 0.45 to 0.94 for all time steps and the average of this ratio is equal to 0.76. The highest and lowest values of R2 at monthly time step obtained 0.92 for April and 0.45 for June. In this time step, the lowest and highest values of statistical error criteria are obtained for June and January, respectively. In seasonal time step, the highest and lowest correlation is related to the spring and summer with determination coefficient (R2) of 0.94 and 0.64, respectively. In this time step, the lowest and highest values of statistical error criteria obtained for summer and winter, respectively. Generally, TRMM data performs best in summer, but worst in winter, which is likely to be associated with the effects of snow/ice-covered surfaces and shortcomings of precipitation retrieval algorithms. The correlation coefficient for the annual time step is equal to 0.83. The results of statistical criteria showed that TRMM rainfall data in all time steps overestimated for all months except for August. The lowest to the highest values of statistical error criteria were obtained for monthly, seasonal and annually rainfall data, respectively. In the next step, spatial distribution of drought based on measured data from ground stations and TRMM data in the period 2001-2005 is obtained from Precipitation Drought Index (PDI) method in study area. The results of the statistical criteria of conformity assessment in PDI spatial distribution map based on TRMM data with corresponding pixels of spatial distribution map based on the synoptic stations precipitation data showed that the drought severity map had a high precision and good conformity with ground data (R2=0.89, ME=0.08, MAE=0.14, RMSE=0.19). Also, the results of the evaluation criteria showed that PDI index in accordance with soil moisture values had the significant correlation (0.71) and the lowest estimation error (2.33).   
Conclusion
In this research, for estimation of drought severity index based on precipitation, the monthly precipitation data of TRMM satellite (3B43) was evaluated. The evaluation was measured using coefficient of determination (R2), mean error (ME), mean absolute error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). This analysis has demonstrated that the TRMM rainfall products show very good agreement with gauge data over the selected area of Central Iran on monthly timescales and 0.25° space scales. said it can be concluded that the satellite-based rainfall, e.g. TRMM data, have good potential for useful application to hydrological simulation and water balance calculations at monthly or seasonal time steps. This can be useful  for the regions where rain gauge observations are sparse or of bad quality. However, the TRMM can overestimate the rainfall in some years and areas and underestimate in other years and areas, and failed to detect the extreme rainfall. This can reduce the accuracy of stream flow simulation at short time steps and other applications including drought monitoring and flood forecasting. The conclusions indicate that it is necessary to further develop algorithms of satellite-based rainfall estimation in terms of both the accuracy and spatiotemporal resolutions of rainfall estimates.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Evaluation
  • Remote Sensing
  • satellite rainfall
  • Drought
  • Central Iran
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