Abstract
Satellite-derived and gauge rainfall data are incompatible spatial data. Although great efforts have been devoted to their combination recently, it is still a complicated issue to be addressed. In this study, the performance of merging satellite and gauge rainfall analyses is examined over a humid region in Southeast China. Using satellite rainfall from TRMM 3B43V7 and ground rain gauge measurements, a geographically weighted regression (GWR) based statistical merging algorithm was proposed to continuously produce monthly rainfall fields at 1-km resolution during the period 2003-2009. Results indicate that the benefits of this rainfall merging approach were remarkable only when the gauge density is lower than one gauge per 1,500 km2, suggesting the information provided by TRMM 3B43V7 is more useful for estimating rainfall fields when the ground measurements are rather sparse.
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