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To fully realize the utility of remotely sensed precipitation products in watershed modeling and decision-making, a thorough evaluation of the accuracy of satellite-based rainfall and regional gauge network estimates is needed. In this study, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42 v.7 and Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) daily rainfall estimates were compared with daily rain gauge observations from 2000 to 2014 in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMRB) in Southeast Asia. Monthly, seasonal, and annual comparisons were performed, which included the calculations of correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination, bias, root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE). Our validation test showed TMPA to correctly detect precipitation or no-precipitation 64.9% of all days and CHIRPS 66.8% of all days, compared to daily in-situ rainfall measurements. The accuracy of the satellite-based products varied greatly between the wet and dry seasons. Both TMPA and CHIRPS showed higher correlation with in-situ data during the wet season (June\u2013September) as compared to the dry season (November\u2013January). Additionally, both performed better on a monthly than an annual time-scale when compared to in-situ data. The satellite-based products showed wet biases during months that received higher cumulative precipitation. Based on a spatial correlation analysis, the average r-value of CHIRPS was much higher than TMPA across the basin. CHIRPS correlated better than TMPA at lower elevations and for monthly rainfall accumulation less than 500 mm. While both satellite-based products performed well, as compared to rain gauge measurements, the present research shows that CHIRPS might be better at representing precipitation over the LMRB than TMPA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11222709","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,19]],"date-time":"2019-11-19T11:30:17Z","timestamp":1574163017000},"page":"2709","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":44,"title":["Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates in the Lower Mekong River Basin (Southeast Asia)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Chelsea","family":"Dandridge","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, 151 Engineers Way PO Box 400747, Olsson Hall Room 101E, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA"}]},{"given":"Venkat","family":"Lakshmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, 151 Engineers Way PO Box 400747, Olsson Hall Room 101E, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Bolten","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hydrological Sciences Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8375-6038","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raghavan","family":"Srinivasan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"121","DOI":"10.1175\/JHM-D-15-0059.1","article-title":"Statistical and Hydrological Comparisons between TRMM and GPM Level-3 Products over a Midlatitude Basin: Is Day-1 IMERG a Good Successor for TMPA 3B42V7?","volume":"17","author":"Tang","year":"2016","journal-title":"J. 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