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Zheng Duan

Associate senior lecturer

photo of Zheng Duan on Lund webpage

An Extended Triple Collocation Method With Maximized Correlation for Near Global-Land Precipitation Fusion

Author

  • Linyong Wei
  • Shanhu Jiang
  • Liliang Ren
  • Shanshui Yuan
  • Yi Liu
  • Xiaoli Yang
  • Menghao Wang
  • Linqi Zhang
  • Huafei Yu
  • Zheng Duan

Summary, in English

An Extended Triple Collocation for maximized Correlation (ETCC) method was proposed with a unique correlation function, the purpose of which is to maximize the correlation between the merged product and unknown truth. The method was tested over quasi-global land by combining three independent precipitation products. The performance of the ETCC-merged product was then evaluated against three reference data sets and compared with the existing Triple Collocation (TC) merging. The merged product was found to be generally superior to each contributor. Moreover, the ETCC method is better able to improve the correlation of merged product compared with the TC approach. Other improvements are also shown in the absolute difference of the ETCC-merged product, such as regional validation for central North America and mainland China. These demonstrate the effectiveness of the ETCC method, and accordingly, it can provide a promising solution for maximizing the correlation of merged product without the truth.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publishing year

2023-12

Language

English

Publication/Series

Geophysical Research Letters

Volume

50

Issue

24

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Topic

  • Mechanical Engineering

Keywords

  • correlation
  • ETCC
  • merged product
  • precipitation
  • reference data set
  • triple collocation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0094-8276