caa a22 4500 445799897 CHVBK 20180317145137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00704-010-0354-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00704-010-0354-z Validation of satellite rainfall products for operational flood forecasting: the case of the Evros catchment [Elektronische Daten] [Fotis Fotopoulos, Christos Makropoulos, Maria Mimikou] An extensive validation of two of the most popular and recently upgraded satellite rainfall products, 3B42 and 3B42RT, was performed over the Evros catchment in southeastern Europe using data recorded from January 2000 to April 2009. For conducting this validation study, the Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) ground data were used. The satellite data products were aggregated to daily time series, remapped to spatial resolution of 0.5°, validated against CPC, and intercompared using a variety of statistical indices and coefficients. After the validation process, all three data sets (CPC, 3B42, and 3B42RT) were separately fed in a statistical rainfall-runoff model, in order to predict the five major recorded flood events which occurred in the Evros catchment during the last decade. It has been found that post-calibration with ground data, which is present only in 3B42 product, is a necessity for operational flood forecasting and similar studies conducted in areas at mid-latitudes. Knowledge of rainfall events with small intensities is crucial for estimating the total rainfall height and drastically improves the skill of the satellite product. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Fotopoulos Fotis Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece aut Makropoulos Christos Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece aut Mimikou Maria Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece aut Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 104/3-4(2011-06-01), 403-414 0177-798X 104:3-4<403 2011 104 704 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-010-0354-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-010-0354-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fotopoulos Fotis Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Makropoulos Christos Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mimikou Maria Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 104/3-4(2011-06-01), 403-414 0177-798X 104:3-4<403 2011 104 704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer