Spatial-temporal mesoscale modeling of rainfall intensity using gage and radar data

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS166zbMATH Open1168.62103MaRDI QIDQ999645FDOQ999645

Authors Montserrat Fuentes, Brian J. Reich, Gyuwon Lee

Publication date 10 February 2009

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3478

zbMATH Keywords

nonstationarityconditionally autoregressive modelsfull symmetryrainfall modellingspatial logistic regressionspatial-temporal models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Geostatistics (86A32) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: Gridded estimated rainfall intensity values at very high spatial and temporal resolution levels are needed as main inputs for weather prediction models to obtain accurate precipitation forecasts, and to verify the performance of precipitation forecast models. These gridded rainfall fields are also the main driver for hydrological models that forecast flash floods, and they are essential for disaster prediction associated with heavy rain. Rainfall information can be obtained from rain gages that provide relatively accurate estimates of the actual rainfall values at point-referenced locations, but they do not characterize well enough the spatial and temporal structure of the rainfall fields. Doppler radar data offer better spatial and temporal coverage, but Doppler radar measures effective radar reflectivity ($Ze$) rather than rainfall rate ($R$). Thus, rainfall estimates from radar data suffer from various uncertainties due to their measuring principle and the conversion from $Ze$ to $R$. We introduce a framework to combine radar reflectivity and gage data, by writing the different sources of rainfall information in terms of an underlying unobservable spatial temporal process with the true rainfall values. We use spatial logistic regression to model the probability of rain for both sources of data in terms of the latent true rainfall process. We characterize the different sources of bias and error in the gage and radar data and we estimate the true rainfall intensity with its posterior predictive distribution, conditioning on the observed data.

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