PERSIANN-CDR Global Daily Precipitation Climate Data

PERSIANN-CDR Global Daily Precipitation
Climate Data Record
Hamed Ashouri, Scott Sellers, Kuolin Hsu, Soroosh
Sorooshian, Dank. Braithwaite
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
The 7th GEWEX Scientific Conference on Water and Energy Cycle
Hague, Netherlands, 14-17 July, 2014
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Extreme Precipitation Events
Floods and droughts are the most
widespread nature disasters
Precipitation measurement at high spatial
& temporal over an extended data period are
needed for climate variability studies and
water resources management.
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN Precipitation Climate Data Record
PERSIANN-CDR
Reconstruction of
30-year+ Daily Precipitation Data
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
LEO Satellites for Precipitation Estimation
Limited PMW Samples
Before year 2000 Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Historical GEO Satellite Data
•  International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
1979 to present
10-km and 3-hour intervals
GOES-11 (135°West)
GOES-12 (75°West)
1. U.S. Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite (GOES)
MET-9 (0°East)
MET-7(57.5°East)
2. European Meteorological satellite
(Meteosat) series
3. Japanese Geostationary
Meteorological Satellite (GMS)
MTSAT-1R(140°East)
FY2-C(105°East)
4. The Chinese Fen-yung 2C (FY2)
series.
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN-CDR Algorithm
GridSat-B1
IRWIN
High Temporal-Spatial Res.
Cloud Infrared Images
Artificial Neural Network
PERSIANN 3-Hourly Rainfall
(0.25ox0.25o)
PERSIANN Monthly Rainfall (2.5ox2.5o)
Adjusted PERSIANN 3-Hourly
Rainfall (0.25ox0.25o)
GPCP Bias
Adjustment
GPCP Monthly Precipitation (2.5ox2.5o)
Spatiotemporal
Accumulation
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN-CDR daily rainfall During Katrina 2005
Center for Hydrometeorology
and Remote
Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Center for Hydrometeorology
and Remote Sensing
(CHRS)
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
GPCP 1-DD and PERSIANN Precipitation (0-30oN)
•  Comparison of the PERSIANN and Bias-Adjusted PERSIANN with Daily GPCP product (1-DD)
•  Data evaluation: Data Period: 1997—2009. Data Coverage: 0—30oN
•  Bias-Adjusted PERSIANN estimates are consistent with the GPCP Daily (1-DD) estimates.
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Daily Rainfall --Hurricane Katrina (29 August 2005)
Stage IV Estimation.
Rain
rate
(mm/day)
Rain
rate
(mm/day)
(mm/day)
RainRain
raterate
(mm/day)
PERSIANN-CDR
(mm/day)
RainRain
raterate
(mm/day)
TMPA V7
Rain rate (mm/day)
Rain rate (mm/day)
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
R10mm: Annual Count of days when rainfall >= 10 mm Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Extreme Precipitation Events
in China (1983~2006)
EA
Annual precipitation
from wet days
SDII
Annual count of days
when precipitation ≥20mm
R20mm
Annual count of days
when precipitation ≥10mm
PERSIANN-CDR
Pixel correlation
Scatterplot of mean
R10mm
Annual total precipitation
when precipitation ≥ 20mm
R20mmTOT
Annual total precipitation
when precipitation ≥ 10mm
R10mmTOT
Miao et al., 2014
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Global Drought Monitoring
Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) estimated from GPCP 2.5-deg monthly (top) and
PERSIANN-CDR 0.25-deg daily (bottom) for the period of 1983-2012.
GPCP 2.5-deg monthly
PERSIANN-CDR 0.25-deg daily
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN-CONNECT
A Database of Precipitation Systems for Climate Research
PERSIANN - CONNected precipitation objECT (CONNECT) Database
Sco$ Sellars, Phu Nguyen, Wei Chu, Xiaogang Gao, Kuolin Hsu, Dmitry Kunisky and Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN-CONNECT
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PERSIANN - CONNected precipitation objECT (CONNECT) Database
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Near Global Precipitation Data (10+ Years)
Hourly Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial
Neural Networks (PERSIANN) precipitation data (mm/hour)
Parameters:
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0.25 degree (~25kmx25km)
480 rows x 1440 columns
600 North - 600 South
01 March 2000 – 01 January 2011
Store in PostgreSQL database
*Sellars, S., P. Nguyen, W. Chu, X. Gao, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian (2013), ComputaDonal Earth Science: Big Data Transformed Into Insight, EOS Trans. AGU, 94(32),277 Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN-CONNECT: Object Approach
a) Traditional Approach
b) 4-Dimensional Approach (voxel)
5mm/hr
Rainfall
Time
Latitude
5mm/hr
Rainfall
Latitude
Longitude
Longitude
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Precipitation Object
CONNECT algorithm criteria:
1)  Must have 1mm/hr
2)  Must exist for 24 hours
3)  6 voxel connections
Time
5mm/hr
Rainfall
Longitu
de
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Precipitation Object
Time
Calculate Object Characteristics:
1)  Max Intensity
2)  Duration
3)  Track
4)  Speed
B
A
Longitu
de
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Precipitation Object Characteristics
Get characteristics from each object:
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Volume
Max Intensity
Average Intensity
Duration
Average Speed
Centroid Lat
Centroid Lon
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69) NINO3+4,
70) NINO4
71) Start Centroid Latitude
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N = # of events
d = # of dimensions (71 in this case)
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
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Large Scale Precipitation Object Example
*Sellars, S., P. Nguyen, W. Chu, X. Gao, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian (2013), ComputaDonal Earth Science: Big Data Transformed Into Insight, EOS Trans. AGU, 94(32),277 -115
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Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Object Segmentation and Storage
CONNECT:
Object Segmentation
Data Cube:
10+ Years of Data
Object Storage
(PostgreSQL)
5mm/hr
Rainfall
Longitude
Time
t=5
t=4
t=3
t=2
t=1
Longitu
de
Data
Set Object Criteria:
Database Indexes:
1.  60N-60S, 0-360 lat and long
2.  Hourly time step
3.  March 1st, 2000 to January 1st, 2011
1.  Each voxel must have 1mm/hr
2.  Each object must exist for 24 hours
3.  6 voxel connections (i.e. voxel face
connections)
1.  Object ID Number
2.  Latitude (of each voxel in objects)
3.  Longitude (of each voxel in objects)
4.  Time (hour)
5.  Precipitation Intensity (mm/hour)
Calculate Characteristics
~1.2 billion rows, 55,000+ Objects
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
PERSIANN-CONNECT database Search…
a) Search For Storms
http://chrs.web.uci.edu/research/voxel/index.html
b) Select Single Storms or All Storms
Download data and
statistics for further
analysis
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
All Storms (2000-2010)
*Sellars, S., P. Nguyen, W. Chu, X. Gao, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian (2013), ComputaDonal Earth Science: Big Data Transformed Into Insight, EOS Trans. AGU, 94(32),277 Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Case Study: Western U.S. Database Search
*Returns ~ 626 large scale precipitation events
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine
Conclusions
PERSIANN-CDR:
•  A more than 30 year daily precipitation data is introduced.
•  With extended data coverage, PERSIANN-CDR can be a very
useful source for climate study of extreme events, such as
floods and droughts.
•  The dataset is available for download through NCDC.
PERSIANN-CONNECT:
•  Data driven, database technologies and 4D methods provide
unique perspective for precipitation analysis
•  Data cover 10 years from March 2000 to Jan. 2011
•  The data base will be extended to the 30+ years using
PERSIANN-CDR data
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine