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HAITI AÆ Flood Rainfall Anomalies Analysis with GPM Data: 20-24 April 2017 | Published 26 April 2017 FL20170424HTI 74°40'0"W 74°0'0"W 73°20'0"W 72°40'0"W 72°0'0"W Cajo Babo Map location Cuba NORD OUEST Cuba 20°0'0"N Atlantic Ocean 20°0'0"N SAINT LOUIS DU NORD Haiti ¥¦¬Port-au-Prince Jean Rabel Kingston ¥¦¬ Jamaica NORD OUEST CAPHAITIEN CAP-HAITIEN Bombardopolis PEPILLO SALCEDO Baie-de-Henne TERRIER ROUGE Estimated Rainfall Anomalies From NORD GRANDE-RIVIERE-DU-NORD 20 to 24 April 2017, Haiti NORD EST PARTIDO This map illustrates the estimated rainfall anomalies GONAIVES GONAIVES (above and below the average rainfall) for Haiti covering the period from 20 to 24 April 2017. This Saint-Michel-de-lAtalaye ere estimates w derived from the Global Precipitation ARTIBONITE 19°20'0"N 19°20'0"N Measurement (GPM) dataset at a spatial resolution of Cerca Carvajal approximately 10km. UNITAR-UNOSAT compared average rainfall between 20 to 24 April (mm/day) with average rainfall in April (~4.4 mm/day), reported by The HINCHE World Bank Group using a data series from 1991 to Caribbean Sea SAINTMARC 2015. It seems that all the Departments located in south SAINT-MARC part of Haiti recorded high levels of rainfall anomalies VERRETTES above the average. It is possible that precipitation levels CENTRE may have been underestimated for local areas, and are not a substitute for ground station measurements. Please La Cayenne send ground feedback to UNITAR - UNOSAT. Haiti ELIAS PINA LAS MATAS Etroits OUEST MIREBALAIS Legend Nan-Mangot LA RANCHA GPM Rainfall Anomalies (mm/day) LOS BOTAOS ¥¦¬ Capital Areas of rainfall anomalies from 20 to 24 April 2017 between +20 and +30 mm/day )" City + 50 mm/d 18°40'0"N Cap Dame-Marie Areas of rainfall anomalies 18°40'0"N (Above Roseaux Village / Town average) between +30 and +40 mm/day Corail LA DESCUBIERTA Pestel CARREFOUR DELMAS International boundary + 40 mm/d Port-au-Prince Sources Chaudes JIMANI Department boundary GRAND'ANSE OUEST + 30 mm/d PETIT-GOAVE NIPPES Carrefour Moussignac Trouin DUVERGE + 20 mm/d Tiburon Les Anglais Cavaillon SUD SUD-EST + 10 mm/d Marigot BELLE-ANSE Coteaux LESCAYES average Port Salut -4.4 mm/d Areas of rainfall anomalies above +40 mm/day Map Scale for A3: 1:1,125,000 Dominican Republic 18°0'0"N 18°0'0"N Km I! 0 5 10 20 30 40 50 74°40'0"W 74°0'0"W 73°20'0"W 72°40'0"W 72°0'0"W Analysis conducted with ArcGIS v10.4 Precipitation Data: GPM Average Precipitation Data: The World Bank Group The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown here are not warranted to be error-free nor do they imply Resolution: ~10km Date Series: 1991-2015 official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. UNOSAT is a program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Coordinate System: GCS WGS 1984 Date Series: 20 - 24 April 2017 (UNITAR), providing satellite imagery and related geographic information, research and analysis to UN humanitarian & development Datum: WGS 1984 Copyright: NASA Baseline Data: CNIGS - USGS agencies & their implementing partners. This work by UNITAR-UNOSAT is licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0 Units: Degree Source: NASA Analysis : UNITAR - UNOSAT Production: UNITAR - UNOSAT UNITAR - UNOSAT - Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland - T: +41 22 767 4020 (UNOSAT Operations) - Hotline 24/7: +41 75 411 4998 - [email protected] - www.unitar.org/unosat.