Contrasting the co-variability of daytime cloud and precipitation over tropical land and ocean by D. Jin, D. Jin, L. Oreopoulos, D. Lee, D. Lee, N. Cho, N. Cho, J. Tan, J. Tan

“…The cloud type fractions are derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) joint histograms of cloud top pressure and cloud optical thickness in 1° grid cells, and the precipitation frequencies come from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) data set aggregated to the same grid.…”
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Evaluation of Grid-Based Rainfall Products and Water Balances over the Mekong River Basin by Kha Dang Dinh, Tran Ngoc Anh, Nhu Y Nguyen, Du Duong Bui, Raghavan Srinivasan

“…Therefore, this study aims to evaluate four commonly used GPPs: the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Unified Gauge-Based Analysis of Global Daily Precipitation, the Climate Prediction Center Morphing (CMORPH) technique, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42, and the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP), using data collected in the period 1998–2006 at different spatial and temporal scales. …”
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Adaptation Analysis in IMERG Precipitation Estimation for the Dongting Lake Basin, China by Shanshan Li, Changbo Jiang, Yuan Ma, Yuannan Long, Ruixuan Wu, Qingxiong Zhu, Donglin Li, Chuannan Li, Zihao Ning

“…In the comparison of IMERG and TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) precipitation products on monthly and seasonal scales, IMERG-F performed the best. …”
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A Machine Learning Approach for Improving Near-Real-Time Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates by Integrating Soil Moisture by Ashish Kumar, RAAJ Ramsankaran, Luca Brocca, Francisco Munoz-Arriola

“…To test this novel approach, Ashti catchment, a sub-basin of Godavari river basin, India, is chosen. Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)-based NRT SRE 3B42RT and Advanced Scatterometer-derived NRT soil moisture are considered in the present study. …”
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Insights for Estimating and Predicting Reservoir Sedimentation Using the RUSLE-SDR Approach: A Case of Darbandikhan Lake Basin, Iraq–Iran by Arsalan Ahmed Othman, Salahalddin S. Ali, Sarkawt G. Salar, Ahmed K. Obaid, Omeed Al-Kakey, Veraldo Liesenberg

“…Sets of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) gathered by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD), AQUA eMODIS NDVI V6 data, in situ surveys by echo-sounding bathymetry, and other ancillary data were employed for this purpose. …”
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Extensive Evaluation of Four Satellite Precipitation Products and Their Hydrologic Applications over the Yarlung Zangbo River by Xiangyu Ye, Yuhan Guo, Zhonggen Wang, Liaofeng Liang, Jiayu Tian

“…This paper analyzes the performance of four satellite products from 2000 to 2008 in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin, namely the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks-Climate Data Record (PERSIANN), Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS), and Climate Prediction Center morphing method (CMORPH). …”
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Investigating the use of satellite-based precipitation products for monitoring water quality in the Occoquan Watershed by Jennifer Solakian, Viviana Maggioni, Adnan Lodhi, Adil Godrej

“…Three (3) satellite-based precipitation products based on different retrieval algorithms (the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis, TMPA 3B42-V7; the Climate Prediction Center’s CMORPH product; and the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks Cloud Classification System, PERSIANN−CCS) are compared to gauge-based records over a 5-year period across the study region. …”
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Improved Remotely Sensed Total Basin Discharge and Its Seasonal Error Characterization in the Yangtze River Basin by Yutong Chen, Hok Sum Fok, Zhongtian Ma, Robert Tenzer

“…This estimation considered the period between January 2003 and December 2012 at a monthly temporal scale and was based on precipitation data collected from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, evapotranspiration data collected from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite, and terrestrial water storage data collected from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite. …”
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Hydrological evaluation of gridded climate datasets in a texas urban watershed using soil and water assessment tool and artificial neural network by Xiaohan Mei, Xiaohan Mei, Xiaohan Mei, Patricia K. Smith, Jing Li, Jing Li, Borui Li

“…This study compared three gridded precipitation datasets, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), and Parameter-elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM). …”
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Hydrological Evaluation of TRMM Rainfall over the Upper Senegal River Basin by Ansoumana Bodian, Alain Dezetter, Abdoulaye Deme, Lamine Diop

“…In this context, our study aimed to evaluate the capacity of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite data to simulate the observed runoffs over the Bafing (the main important tributary of the Senegal River) before their potential integration in hydrological studies. …”
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Spatial resolution of tropical terrestrial CO₂ fluxes inferred using space-borne column CO₂ sampled in different earth orbits: the role of spatial error corre... by H. Bösch, L. Feng, P. I. Palmer

“…We focus on three orbits: (1) a low-inclination circular orbit used by the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM); (2) a sun-synchronous orbit used by the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) and proposed for the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) instrument; and (3) a precessing orbit used by the International Space Station (ISS). …”
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Assessment of Four Satellite-Based Precipitation Products Over the Pearl River Basin, China by Xiaolin Xia, Yangxiaoyue Liu, Wenlong Jing, Ling Yao

“…This paper assessed the performance of four daily SPPs, including data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS), Climate prediction center MORPHmorphing technique (CMORPH) and Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) based Soil Moisture to RAINfall algorithm (SM2RAIN-ASCAT), using the ground gauge measurements from 2010 to 2014 over the Pearl River Basin (PRB), China. …”
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Preliminary Observations from the China Fengyun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager and Its Optical Radiation Characteristics by Wen Hui, Wenjuan Zhang, Weitao Lyu, Pengfei Li

“…The observation characteristics of the LMI were revealed through a comparison with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)-Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) and World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) observations. …”
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Development of a Landslide Early Warning System in Indonesia by Rokhmat Hidayat, Samuel Jonson Sutanto, Alidina Hidayah, Banata Ridwan, Arif Mulyana

“…For precipitation data, we use a combination of 1-day and 3-day cumulative observed and forecasted precipitation data, obtained from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and the Indonesian Meteorological Climatological and Geophysical Agency (BMKG). …”
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Estimation of snowfall limit for the Kashmir Valley, Indian Himalayas, with TRMM PR Bright Band information by S. Schauwecker, M. Rohrer, M. Schwarb, C. Huggel, A.P. Dimri, N. Salzmann

“…Here, we present BB heights detected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) 2A23 algorithm over a mountainous area. …”
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Predicting Changes in Spatiotemporal Groundwater Storage Through the Integration of Multi-Satellite Data and Deep Learning Models by Jae Young Seo, Sang-Il Lee

“…The input variables were terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA) recorded by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites and the GRACE-Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, precipitation measured by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, average temperature and soil moisture obtained from the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and modified normalized difference water index (MNDWI) acquired from the Landsat 5 and 8 satellites. …”
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Estimating Crop and Grass Productivity over the United States Using Satellite Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Precipitation and Soil Moisture Data by Maryia Halubok, Zong-Liang Yang

“…We have used multi-year datasets from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM), and FLUXNET observations from ten stations in the continental United States. …”
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A novel algorithm for detection of precipitation in tropical regions using PMW radiometers by D. Casella, G. Panegrossi, P. Sanò, L. Milani, M. Petracca, S. Dietrich

“…The algorithm has been developed using a 2-year data set of co-located Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission precipitation radar (TRMM-PR) measurements and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) Microwave Humidity Sounder and TRMM-PR measurements. …”
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Exploring the potential of satellite precipitation after bias correction in streamflow simulation in a semi-arid watershed in northeastern China by Lu Zhang, Zhuohang Xin, Chi Zhang, Changchun Song, Huicheng Zhou

“…Study Region: The Upper Taoer River Watershed (UTRW), Northeastern China Study Focus: This study presents a comprehensive hydrometeorological evaluation of six satellite precipitation products (SPPs) over a sparsely gauged semi-arid watershed, including the adjusted and unadjusted versions of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM products (IMERG), and Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERISIANN) series. …”
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Assessment of the Regional Climate Model Version 3 over the Maritime Continent Using Different Cumulus Parameterization and Land Surface Schemes by Gianotti, Rebecca Louise, Zhang, Dongfeng, Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.

“…The model’s performance in simulating precipitation over the Maritime Continent was evaluated against the 3-hourly Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis 3B42 product. …”
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