dc.description.abstract | The Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) technique presented by Kidder et al. in 2005, shifting rainfall distribution from satellite retrieval, and forecasting rainfall for tropical cyclone. Chen(2010) improved TRaP rainfall forecast practicality by adding orographic effect with historical rainfall distribution(I-TRaP). Since I-TRaP forecast uses rainfall distribution from satellite, how to get better rainfall distribution is an important issue.
There is only single satellite rainfall product in past study, limited by temporal resolution. For many study, The performance of multi-satellite rainfall products with high spatial-temporal resolution(0.1°-0.25°, 0.5-3h) are getting better recently but less discussed on heavy rainfall especially for typhoon. This study compares few common multi-satellite products (GSMaP, IMERG, PERSIANN) with typhoon heavy rainfall in the North-West Pacific, GSMaP is better. There are different performance between convective and stratiform rainfall. Indeed, the PMW retrieval fail to classification in rainfall type determination during microwave rainfall retrieving, but not cause rainfall error. In addition, compare liquid water content and rainfall error, the PMW retrieval still cannot estimate liquid water accurately in moderate to heavy rainfall.
Apply GSMaP to I-TRaP and calculate typhoon rainfall forecast over Taiwan. In order to highlight satellite rainfall distribution, modify earlier method only revising total rainfall and using historical rainfall distribution, calculate rainfall regression by individual point. This method will predict more heavy rainfall but more false alarm. Compare earlier I-TRaP using SSMIS, GSMaP with high spatial-temporal resolution is more useful for I-TRaP forecast, and more prediction of heavy rainfall. | en_US |