Scientific Publication

Multifractal Downscaling of Rainfall Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Andes Plateau

author(s) Espinosa L A D - Posadas A - Carbajal M - Quiroz R
from World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
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regions
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
  • World
  • South America
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
citation

Espinosa L A D et al., 'Multifractal Downscaling of Rainfall Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Andes Plateau', 2017

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Abstract

In this paper, a multifractal downscaling technique is applied to adequately transformed and lag corrected normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in order to obtain daily estimates of rainfall in an area of the Peruvian Andean high plateau. This downscaling procedure is temporal in nature since the original NDVI information is provided at an irregular temporal sampling period between 8 and 11 days, and the desired final scale is 1 day. The spatial resolution of approximately 1 km remains the same throughout the downscaling process. The results were validated against on-site measurements of meteorological stations distributed in the area under study. © 2017 Duffaut Espinosa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

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