Articles | Volume 27, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-169-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-169-2023
Research article
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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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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on hess-2022-79', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 May 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', wei zhao, 24 Jun 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on hess-2022-79', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jun 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', wei zhao, 06 Jul 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (07 Jul 2022) by Shraddhanand Shukla
AR by wei zhao on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Jul 2022) by Shraddhanand Shukla
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Aug 2022)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (07 Nov 2022)
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (07 Nov 2022) by Shraddhanand Shukla
AR by wei zhao on behalf of the Authors (16 Nov 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Nov 2022) by Shraddhanand Shukla
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (21 Nov 2022)
ED: Publish as is (14 Dec 2022) by Shraddhanand Shukla
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Short summary
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.