TPHiPr: a long-term (1979-2020) high-accuracy precipitation dataset (1/30°daily) for the Third Pole region based on high-resolution atmospheric modeling and dense observations

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Abstract

Reliable precipitation data are highly necessary for geoscience research in the Third Pole (TP) region but still lacking, due to the complex terrain and high spatial variability of precipitation here. Accordingly, this study produces a long-term (1979-2020) high-resolution (1/30°daily) precipitation dataset (TPHiPr) for the TP by merging the atmospheric simulation-based ERA5_CNN with gauge observations from more than 9000 rain gauges, using the climatologically aided interpolation and random forest methods. Validation shows that TPHiPr is generally unbiased and has a root mean square error of 5.0 mm d-1, a correlation of 0.76 and a critical success index of 0.61 with respect to 197 independent rain gauges in the TP, demonstrating that this dataset is remarkably better than the widely used datasets, including the latest generation of reanalysis (ERA5-Land), the state-of-the-art satellite-based dataset (IMERG) and the multi-source merging datasets (MSWEP v2 and AERA5-Asia). Moreover, TPHiPr can better detect precipitation extremes compared with these widely used datasets. Overall, this study provides a new precipitation dataset with high accuracy for the TP, which may have broad applications in meteorological, hydrological and ecological studies. The produced dataset can be accessed via https://doi.org/10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.272763 (Yang and Jiang, 2022).

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Jiang, Y., Yang, K., Qi, Y., Zhou, X., He, J., Lu, H., … Zhou, J. (2023). TPHiPr: a long-term (1979-2020) high-accuracy precipitation dataset (1/30°daily) for the Third Pole region based on high-resolution atmospheric modeling and dense observations. Earth System Science Data, 15(2), 621–638. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-621-2023

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