Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-999-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-999-2017
Research article
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16 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2017

Remapping annual precipitation in mountainous areas based on vegetation patterns: a case study in the Nu River basin

Xing Zhou, Guang-Heng Ni, Chen Shen, and Ting Sun

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We develop a fusion framework to improve precipitation estimation by jointly utilizing the gauge precipitation and vegetation index and then applying them to mountainous areas of the Nu River basin. The results demonstrate the reliability of the framework in reproducing the high-resolution precipitation regime and capturing its high spatial variability in the Nu River basin. The framework can significantly reduce the errors in precipitation estimates as compared with the IDW and TRMM methods.