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The uncertainties at a local climate regime that are essential to be resolved are rarely reported; consequently, such work needs attention. To address this problem, we validated the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation data using high-resolution areal precipitation (0.125 deg.) at a seasonal scale. This study examined the performance of the monthly rainfall data product (TRMM 3B43) at the seasonal monsoon scale in the local climate region of Peninsular Malaysia. The high-resolution areal precipitation data (0.125 deg.) were derived from a dense rain gauge network ever collected in Peninsular Malaysia (n = 984). Three relevant performance elements were evaluated:  (i) the ability to depict temporal rainfall variation (ii) the quantitative error between TRMM and ground rainfall; and (iii) the ability to estimate the actual rainfall amount. We found that the ability of monthly TRMM data to depict rainfall variation and its tendency to propagate large errors varied seasonally. The correlation between TRMM and ground rainfall was good during the wettest period in all local climate regions. The error was related to the northeast monsoon and inter-monsoon 2 (September\u2013October). Meanwhile, the TRMM ratio varied regionally, rather than seasonally. Determining the local-scale uncertainties will facilitate future downscale activities using TRMM satellite data in this region.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70404092","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,8]],"date-time":"2015-04-08T03:01:07Z","timestamp":1428462067000},"page":"4092-4111","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Assessment of Effective Seasonal Downscaling of TRMM Precipitation Data in Peninsular Malaysia"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Mohd","family":"Mahmud","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University,  1-1 Minami Osawa, 192-0397 Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4673-0485","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shinya","family":"Numata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University,  1-1 Minami Osawa, 192-0397 Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan"}]},{"given":"Hiroshi","family":"Matsuyama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University,  1-1 Minami Osawa, 192-0397 Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan"}]},{"given":"Tetsuro","family":"Hosaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University,  1-1 Minami Osawa, 192-0397 Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan"}]},{"given":"Mazlan","family":"Hashim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geospatial Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,  81310 Skudai, Johor Bharu, Malaysia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3937","DOI":"10.5194\/hess-17-3937-2013","article-title":"Rainfall and temperature estimation for a data sparse region","volume":"17","author":"Wilby","year":"2013","journal-title":"Hydrol. 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