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In many basins, ground rainfall stations are sparse and uneven, so real-time satellite precipitation products (SPPs) have become an important supplement to ground-gauged precipitation (GGP). A multi-source precipitation fusion method suitable for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model has been proposed in this paper. First, the multivariate inverse distance similarity method (MIDSM) was proposed to search for the optimal representative precipitation points of GGP and SPPs in sub-basins. Subsequently, the correlation-coefficient-based weighted average method (CCBWA) was presented and applied to calculate the fused multi-source precipitation product (FMSPP), which combined GGP and multiple satellite precipitation products. The effectiveness of the FMSPP was proven over the Tuojiang River Basin. In the case study, three SPPs were chosen as the satellite precipitation sources, namely the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Project (TRMM), and Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Network Climate Data Record (PERSIANN-CDR). The evaluation indicators illustrated that FMSPP could capture the occurrence of rainfall events very well, with a maximum Probability of Detection (POD) and Critical Success Index (CSI) of 0.92 and 0.83, respectively. Furthermore, its correlation with GGP, changing in the range of 0.84\u20130.96, was higher in most sub-basins on the monthly scale than the other three SPPs. These results demonstrated that the performance of FMSPP was the best compared with the original SPPs. Finally, FMSPP was applied in the SWAT model and was found to effectively drive the SWAT model in contrast with a single precipitation source. The FMSPP manifested the highest accuracy in hydrological modeling, with the Coefficient of Determination (R2) of 0.84, Nash Sutcliff (NS) of 0.83, and Percent Bias (PBIAS) of only \u22121.9%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13132630","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,4]],"date-time":"2021-07-04T22:35:22Z","timestamp":1625438122000},"page":"2630","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Evaluation and Hydrological Application of a Data Fusing Method of Multi-Source Precipitation Products-A Case Study over Tuojiang River Basin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5197-8277","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yao","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wensheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9121-9571","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guoqing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing 210029, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siyi","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"313","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2017.04.006","article-title":"Evaluation of the TRMM multisatellite precipitation analysis and its applicability in supporting reservoir operation and water resources management in Hanjiang basin, China","volume":"549","author":"Yang","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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