Abstract:Flood/droughtisoneofthemostinfluentialclimaticdisastersinPoyangLakebasin.Intraditional
flood/droughtmonitoring,precipitationdatausedareusuallyfrom ground meteorologicalobservation
sites.However,duetotheheterogeneityofregionalprecipitationoverspaceandtime,quantityandspatial
distributionsofmeteorologicalstationsfrequentlylimittheoverallaccuracyoftheregionalflood/drought
analysis.AsonemajormeansofspaceGbasedobservations,inrecentyears,satelliteremotesensinghasbeG
comeanincreasinglyimportanttechniqueforregionprecipitationchangemonitoring.Inthispaper,TRMM
(TropicalRainfallMeasuringMission)satellite3B42precipitationdatainPoyangLakebasin,firstly,were
evaluatedandcomparedthroughthebiasofrainfallamountandoccurrencefrequencyunderdifferentrainG
fallintensity,andthenbeusedtoreflectthespatioGtemporaldistributioncharacteristicsoffloods/droughts
bytheZindexmethodinPoyangLakebasinfromJanuary1998toDecember2010.TheirreliabilitywasalG
sovalidatedbythe15raingaugestationsinthebasinusingthesamemethod.TheresultsshowedasfolG
lows.(1)TheoccurrencefrequencyandrainfallamountcontributionsofdailyTRMMprecipitationunder
differentrainfallintensityhadahighlevelofconsistencywithgroundgaugesobservation.Andatmonthly
scale,thehighcorrelationcoefficientbetweenobservedrainfalldataandTRMMgridprecipitationindicated
thattheTRMMprecipitationcouldcorrectlyreflecttherainfallinPoyangLakebasin.(2)ZindexcalculatG
edbyTRMM precipitationshowedanincreaseGdecreasealternantvariationaround0between1998and
2010.Theirvariationprocessandtrendswereconsistentwiththeresultsoftworaingaugesdataandthe
correlationcoefficientswere0??896and0??914,respectively.(3)ThefloodeventsinPoyangLakebasinocG
curredmainlyfromApriltoJuneandaccountedforabout60%,whichwasalsothemainwetseasonofPoyG
angLakebasin,andthedroughtoccurredmainlyfromSeptembertoJanuaryofthefollowingyear.And
theirdistributionpatternswereconsistentwiththeannualdistributioncharacteristicsofprecipitation.(4)
ThespatialdistributionofZindexandflood/droughtgradesbasedonTRMMprecipitationwasconsistent
withthedistributionofrainfallinApril,2010andNovember,2007,whichrepresentedthewetanddry
monthrespectively.TRMM precipitationdatacanbeusedtoevaluatetheareaandseverityoffloodor
droughtinPoyangLakebasin.Abstract:Flood/droughtisoneofthemostinfluentialclimaticdisastersinPoyangLakebasin.Intraditional
flood/droughtmonitoring,precipitationdatausedareusuallyfrom ground meteorologicalobservation
sites.However,duetotheheterogeneityofregionalprecipitationoverspaceandtime,quantityandspatial
distributionsofmeteorologicalstationsfrequentlylimittheoverallaccuracyoftheregionalflood/drought
analysis.AsonemajormeansofspaceGbasedobservations,inrecentyears,satelliteremotesensinghasbeG
comeanincreasinglyimportanttechniqueforregionprecipitationchangemonitoring.Inthispaper,TRMM
(TropicalRainfallMeasuringMission)satellite3B42precipitationdatainPoyangLakebasin,firstly,were
evaluatedandcomparedthroughthebiasofrainfallamountandoccurrencefrequencyunderdifferentrainG
fallintensity,andthenbeusedtoreflectthespatioGtemporaldistributioncharacteristicsoffloods/droughts
bytheZindexmethodinPoyangLakebasinfromJanuary1998toDecember2010.TheirreliabilitywasalG
sovalidatedbythe15raingaugestationsinthebasinusingthesamemethod.TheresultsshowedasfolG
lows.(1)TheoccurrencefrequencyandrainfallamountcontributionsofdailyTRMMprecipitationunder
differentrainfallintensityhadahighlevelofconsistencywithgroundgaugesobservation.Andatmonthly
scale,thehighcorrelationcoefficientbetweenobservedrainfalldataandTRMMgridprecipitationindicated
thattheTRMMprecipitationcouldcorrectlyreflecttherainfallinPoyangLakebasin.(2)ZindexcalculatG
edbyTRMM precipitationshowedanincreaseGdecreasealternantvariationaround0between1998and
2010.Theirvariationprocessandtrendswereconsistentwiththeresultsoftworaingaugesdataandthe
correlationcoefficientswere0??896and0??914,respectively.(3)ThefloodeventsinPoyangLakebasinocG
curredmainlyfromApriltoJuneandaccountedforabout60%,whichwasalsothemainwetseasonofPoyG
angLakebasin,andthedroughtoccurredmainlyfromSeptembertoJanuaryofthefollowingyear.And
theirdistributionpatternswereconsistentwiththeannualdistributioncharacteristicsofprecipitation.(4)
ThespatialdistributionofZindexandflood/droughtgradesbasedonTRMMprecipitationwasconsistent
withthedistributionofrainfallinApril,2010andNovember,2007,whichrepresentedthewetanddry
monthrespectively.TRMM precipitationdatacanbeusedtoevaluatetheareaandseverityoffloodor
droughtinPoyangLakebasin.