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water Article Hydrologic Assessment of TRMM and GPM-Based Precipitation Products in Transboundary River Catchment (Chenab River, Pakistan) Ehtesham Ahmed 1,* , Firas Al Janabi 1, Jin Zhang 2 , Wenyu Yang 3, Naeem Saddique 4 and Peter Krebs 1 1 Institute of Urban and Industrial Water Management, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany; fi[email protected] (F.A.J.); [email protected] (P.K.) 2 Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; [email protected] 3 Institute of Environmental Sciences, Brandenburgische Technische Universität, 03046 Cottbus, Germany; [email protected] 4 Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +49-1525-6918549 Received: 9 June 2020; Accepted: 1 July 2020; Published: 3 July 2020 Abstract: Water resources planning and management depend on the quality of climatic data, particularly rainfall data, for reliable hydrological modeling. This can be very problematic in transboundary rivers with limited disclosing of data among the riparian countries. Satellite precipitation products are recognized as a promising source to substitute the ground-based observations in these conditions. This research aims to assess the feasibility of using a satellite-based precipitation product for better hydrological modeling in an ungauged and riparian river in Pakistan, i.e., the Chenab River. A semidistributed hydrological model of The soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) was set up and two renowned satellite precipitation products, i.e., global precipitation mission (GPM) IMERG-F v6 and tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) 3B42 v7, were selected to assess the runoff pattern in Chenab River. The calibration was done from 2001–2006 with two years of a warmup period. The validation (2007–2010) results exhibit higher correlation between observed and simulated discharges at monthly timescale simulations, IMERG-F (R2 = 0.89, NSE = 0.82), 3B42 (R2 = 0.85, NSE = 0.72), rather than daily timescale simulations, IMERG-F (R2 = 0.66, NSE = 0.61), 3B42 (R2 = 0.64, NSE = 0.54). Moreover, the comparison between IMERG-F and 3B42, shows that IMERG-F is superior to 3B42 by indicating higher R2, NSE and lower percent bias (PBIAS) at both monthly and daily timescale. The results are strengthened by Taylor diagram statistics, which represent a higher correlation (R) and less RMS error between observed and simulated values for IMERG-F. IMERG-F has great potential utility in the Chenab River catchment as it outperformed the 3B42 precipitation in this study. However, its poor skill of capturing peaks at daily timescale remains, leaving a room for IMERG-F to improve its algorithm in the upcoming release. Keywords: TRMM 3B42 v7; GPM IMERG-F v6; Chenab River; satellite precipitation; ungauged catchment; transboundary river 1. Introduction Satellite Precipitation has gone through two renowned satellite products, named as, tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) [1] and global precipitation measurement (GPM) [2]. These products were estimated using TRMM multi-satellite precipitation analysis (TMPA) [1] and integrated multi-satellite retrievals for GPM (IMERG) [2], respectively. IMERG is available in finer spatial (0.1 0.1 ) resolution ◦ × ◦ than TMPA spatial (0.25 0.25 ) resolution. This study emphasizes the use of these two satellite ◦ × ◦ Water 2020, 12, 1902; doi:10.3390/w12071902 www.mdpi.com/journal/water Water 2020, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 21 products were estimated using TRMM multi-satellite precipitation analysis (TMPA) [1] and Waterintegrated2020, 12, multi 1902 -satellite retrievals for GPM (IMERG) [2], respectively. 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