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Exploring the Use of the Three Rainfall Remote Sensing Products for Flood Prediction in the Brahmaputra Basin

7 pagesPublished: September 20, 2018

Abstract

An important aspect in hydrological modelling is the accurate quantification and prediction of rainfall. In ungauged or poorly gauged basins ground data is sparse and often is complemented by rainfall satellite products, which brings additional uncertainties. The main objective of this research is to assess performance of distributed hydrological models using the remotely sensed rainfall estimates as forcings for the model. The model, based is based on the conceptual HBV-96 model and the PCRaster framework, is implemented for the Brahmaputra basin. Three different remote sensed datasets of precipitation (MSWEP, TMPA and PERSIANN-CDR) are used. Simple fusion methods are used to combine models results generate by the dataset of precipitation. The preliminary results of this study show that better model results are achieved merging the output results. Using MSWEP and TMPA as the forcing data provides satisfactory model results. On the other hand, use of PERSIANN-CDR leads to better prediction of flow peaks but overestimations of the hydrographs’ falling limbs.

Keyphrases: brahmaputra basin, distributed hydrological modelling, flood prediction, rainfall remote sensing

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 1366-1372.

BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{HIC2018:Exploring_Use_Three_Rainfall,
  author    = {Maurizio Mazzoleni and Biswa Bhattacharya and Miguel Angel Laverde Barajas and Dimitri Solomatine},
  title     = {Exploring the Use of the Three Rainfall Remote Sensing Products for Flood Prediction in the Brahmaputra Basin},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/K6hl},
  doi       = {10.29007/h6z1},
  pages     = {1366-1372},
  year      = {2018}}
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