Table 3 List of the selected rainfall products for this study.

From: River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa

Product

Data period

Spatial resolution (°)

Temporal resolution

Latency

References

Reference products

EOBS

1950-on going

0.25

1-day

3 months

46

PITA

1978-on going

 ~ 0.1

1-day

15 days

34

Long latency products (> 1 month)

GPCC

1950-on going

1

1-day

15–45 days

35

ERA5

1978-on going

0.36

1-h

3 months

34

GPM-final run

2014-on going

0.1

30-min

 > 1 month

9

Short latency products (< 3 days)

GPM-early run

2015-on going

0.1

30-min

12 h

9

GPM+SM2RAIN

2015-on going

0.25

1-day

3 days

7

PRISM-SMOS

2015-on going

0.25

3-h

3 days

13,33

PRISM-SMAP

2015-on going

0.25

3-h

3 days

13,33