Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 27, issue 1
Articles | Volume 27, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-169-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-169-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 27, issue 1
Research article
 | 
10 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 10 Jan 2023

SMPD: a soil moisture-based precipitation downscaling method for high-resolution daily satellite precipitation estimation

Kunlong He, Wei Zhao, Luca Brocca, and Pere Quintana-Seguí

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High-resolution soil moisture data (1 km) [Data set]. In Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Version 1) K. He https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7451422

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In this study, we developed a soil moisture-based precipitation downscaling (SMPD) method for spatially downscaling the GPM daily precipitation product by exploiting the connection between surface soil moisture and precipitation according to the soil water balance equation. Based on this physical method, the spatial resolution of the daily precipitation product was downscaled to 1 km and the SMPD method shows good potential for the development of the high-resolution precipitation product.
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