Variational Rainfall Fusion and Downscaling via 1-Regularization in the Wavelet Domain
Document Type
Presentation
Journal/Book Title/Conference
American Geophysical Union
Location
San Francisco, CA
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Abstract
resolution estimate of a state variable of interest is sought from a set of coarse-scale and noisy observations. Following recent developments in regularization of inverse problems in transform domains, this work proposes a new variational approach for rainfall data fusion and/or downscaling. From a statistical standpoint, the proposed framework can be interpreted as a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator, which explicitly accounts for the non-Gaussian and sparse pdf of the state variable in the transform domain. This MAP estimator yields an improved estimate of rainfall and properly regularizes the intrinsically ill-posed DFD problem in a noisy environment. Efficient solution methods for large scale problems are discussed and the results of synthetic and real case studies for simultaneous fusion and downscaling of the ground-based NEXRAD and TRMM-PR are presented, denoting superior performance of the proposed framework compared to the classical least squares methods.op panel: TRMM-PR snapshot 06/28/1996 at 18:13:00 UTC(TX), middle panel: NEXRAD coincidental snapshot and lower panel: fused product using variational methods with L_1 regularization in the wavelet domain.
Recommended Citation
American Geophysical Union (2012), Variational Rainfall Fusion and Downscaling via 1-Regularization in the Wavelet Domain (oral presentation), San Francisco, CA.
