Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Products for Monitoring Extreme Rainfall Events in Bangladesh

Montes, Carlo; Acharya, Nachiketa; Hassan, Quamrul

doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0585.v1

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“…For constructing gridded rainfall, BMD data from almost entire country's weather stations (54) are merged with rainfall estimates from the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation (CHIRP; Funk et al, 2015). Compared with other available gridded precipitation products, ENACTS‐BMD performs better in terms of monsoon total rainfall (Montes, Acharya, & Hassan, 2021). In this study, seasonal total rainfall for the period June through September (JJAS) are accumulated from daily data for the years 1982 to 2018.…”

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Calibrated multi‐model ensemble seasonal prediction of Bangladesh summer monsoon rainfall

Acharya,

Montes,

Hassan

et al. 2023

Intl Journal of Climatology

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Bangladesh summer monsoon rainfall (BSMR), typically from June through September (JJAS), represents the main source of water for multiple sectors. However, its high spatial and interannual variability makes the seasonal prediction of BSMR crucial for building resilience to natural disasters and for food security in a climate‐risk‐prone country. This study describes the development and implementation of an objective system for the seasonal forecasting of BSMR, recently adopted by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). The approach is based on the use of a calibrated multi‐model ensemble (CMME) of seven state‐of‐the‐art general circulation models (GCMs) from the North American Multi‐Model Ensemble project. The lead‐1 (initial conditions of May for forecasting JJAS total rainfall) hindcasts (spanning 1982–2010) and forecasts (spanning 2011–2018) of seasonal total rainfall for the JJAS season from these seven GCMs were used. A canonical correlation analysis (CCA) regression is used to calibrate the raw GCMs outputs against observations, which are then combined with equal weight to generate final CMME predictions. Results show, compared to individual calibrated GCMs and uncalibrated MME, that the CCA‐based calibration generates significant improvements over individual raw GCM in terms of the magnitude of systematic errors, Spearman's correlation coefficients, and generalised discrimination scores over most of Bangladesh areas, especially in the northern part of the country. Since October 2019, the BMD has been issuing real‐time seasonal rainfall forecasts using this new forecast system.

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