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The accuracies of IMERG V6, IMERG V7, and the corrected IMERG V7 satellite precipitation products (SPPs) were assessed against ground rainfall observations. The performance of flood modeling based on the original and the corrected SPPs was then evaluated and compared. In addition, the ability of different numbers (one\u2013eight) of ground stations to correct IMERG V7 data for flood modeling was investigated. The results indicate that IMERG V6 data generally underestimate the actual rainfall of the study area, while IMERG V7 and the corrected IMERG V7 data using the geographical discrepancy analysis (GDA) method overestimate rainfall. The corrected IMERG V7 data performed best in capturing the actual rainfall events, followed by IMERG V7 and IMERG V6 data, respectively. The IMERG V7-generated flood hydrographs exhibited the same trend as those of the measured data, yet the former generally overestimated the flood peak due to its overestimation of rainfall. The corrected IMERG V7 data led to superior event-based flood modeling performance compared to the other datasets. Furthermore, when the number of ground stations used to correct the IMERG V7 data in the study area was greater than or equal to four, the flood modeling performance was satisfactory. The results confirm the applicability of IMERG V7 data for fine time scales in event-based flood modeling and reveal that using the GDA method to correct SPPs can greatly enhance the accuracy of flood modeling. 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