Assessing the performance and reliability of PERSIANN-CDR satellite-based rainfall estimates over Spain: case study of rainfall Dry Spell Lengths (DSL)

Sandra G. Garcia Galiano1,2, Juan Diego Giraldo Osorio3, Phu Nguyen4, Kuo-lin Hsu4, Dan Braithwaite4, Patricia Olmos1 and Soroosh Sorooshian5, (1)Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Civil Engineering, Cartagena, Spain, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Ingenieria Civil, Bogota, Colombia, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States