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Research article
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13 Jan 2022
Research article |
| 13 Jan 2022
| 13 Jan 2022
Performance of the Global Forecast System's medium-range precipitation forecasts in the Niger river basin using multiple satellite-based products
Haowen Yue
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593, USA
Mekonnen Gebremichael
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593, USA
Vahid Nourani
Center of Excellence in Hydroinformatics and Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, 29 Bahman Ave, Tabriz, Iran
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Near East University, Near East Boulevard, 99138, Nicosia, via Mersin 10, Turkey
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- A tolerant hydrologic technique for real-time selection of optimum QPFs from NWPMs for flood warning applications M. Salah et al.
- Advancements in weather forecasting for precision agriculture: From statistical modeling to transformer-based architectures C. Hachimi et al.
- Comprehensive evaluation of satellite precipitation products over sparsely gauged river basin in Nigeria H. Ganiyu et al.
- Assessment of Satellite-Based Rainfall Products for Flood Modeling in the Ouémé River Basin in Benin (West Africa) M. Bodjrènou et al.
- Estimation of Flood Inundation Area Using Soil Moisture Active Passive Fractional Water Data with an LSTM Model R. Febrian et al.
- A hybrid model enhancing streamflow forecasts in paddy land use-dominated catchments with numerical weather prediction model-based meteorological forcings A. Mohanty et al.
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- Nigeria’s Lower Niger dredging campaigns, 1909–2014: the politics of a Lugardian inland water transport project versus the global playbook E. Chilaka
- Improving the skill of medium range ensemble rainfall forecasts over India using MoES grand ensemble (MGE)-part-I A. Dube et al.
- Applicability Assessment of GPM IMERG Satellite Heavy-Rainfall-Informed Reservoir Short-Term Inflow Forecast and Optimal Operation: A Case Study of Wan’an Reservoir in China Q. Ma et al.
- Flood Forecasting of the Tajan Watershed Using the Output of the Numerical Weather Prediction Model (GFS) and the HEC-HMS Hydrological Model F. Mehrpourbernety et al.
- Forecasting streamflow in Colorado by deep learning and NASA satellite remote sensing M. Valipour & A. Brown
- Development of an Integrated Observation Data and Global Numerical Weather Prediction System-Based Rainfall-Runoff Forecasting Model as PJT-I’s Effort in Water Resources Disaster Mitigation R. Muttaqin & A. Nugrahany
- Evaluating the Effect of Adaptation Policies on Crop Yield, Economic Growth and Water Resources: A DPSIR-Based Analysis for the Niger River Basin Under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways-Representative Concentration Pathways (SSP-RCPS) (2014–2100) U. Ndubuisi & C. Guipponi
- Developing an open-source flood forecasting system adapted to data-scarce regions: A digital twin coupled with hydrologic-hydrodynamic simulations L. M. C. Rápalo et al.
- Interpretable deep learning method integrating spatial self-attention for generating bias-corrected high-resolution GFS precipitation forecasts H. Wang et al.
- Towards improved flood prediction: a review of deterministic hydrologic-hydraulic model coupling G. Mkhonta et al.
- The Zircon Story of the Niger River: Time‐Structure Maps of the West African Craton and Discontinuous Propagation of Provenance Signals Across a Disconnected Sediment‐Routing System G. Pastore et al.
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Short summary
The development of high-resolution global precipitation forecasts and the lack of reliable precipitation forecasts over Africa motivates this work to evaluate the precipitation forecasts from the Global Forecast System (GFS) over the Niger river basin in Africa. The GFS forecasts, at a 15 d accumulation timescale, have an acceptable performance; however, the forecasts are highly biased. It is recommended to apply bias correction to GFS forecasts before their application.
The development of high-resolution global precipitation forecasts and the lack of reliable...
