Technical Edition 1.0 · Zenodo DOI
The Noncontiguous Rain-Gauge Method
A working guide to verifying satellite rainfall estimates from sparse point gauges.
This technical monograph presents the Noncontiguous Rain-Gauge Method for constructing a gauge-derived areal rainfall reference distribution from sparse point rain gauges. The method addresses the support mismatch between point gauges and satellite areal rainfall estimates.
Publication information
Technical Edition 1.0 is archived by Zenodo with a permanent DOI and released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.20946383
- Zenodo record
- zenodo.org/records/20946383
- Author
- Morrissey, Mark L.
- Publication date
- June 27, 2026
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Morrissey, M. L. (2026). The Noncontiguous Rain-Gauge Method: A Working Guide to Verifying Satellite Rainfall Estimates from Sparse Point Gauges (Technical Edition 1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20946383
What the NCR method covers
Gauge-to-pixel scale
Why individual gauges sample point rainfall while satellite products estimate areal rainfall over a grid cell or verification area.
Conditional distributions
How rainfall distributions can be conditioned on satellite estimate bins to evaluate calibration and verification performance.
Practical workflow
How sparse tropical-island gauge networks can still support useful satellite-rainfall verification when the scale problem is handled directly.