This study compares five readily available gridded precipitation satellite products namely: Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Station Data (CHIRPS) at 0.05° and 0.25° resolution, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA 3B42v7) and Princeton Global Forcings (PGFv3), both at 0.25°, and Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation Reanalysis (GSMaP_RNL) at 0.1°, and evaluates their quality and reliability against 41 rain gauge stations in Malaysia. The evaluation was based on three numerical statistical scores (r, Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and Bias) and three categorical scores (Probability of Detection (POD), False Alarm Ratio (FAR) and Critical Success Index (CSI)) at temporal resolutions of daily, monthly and seasonal. The results showed that TMPA 3B42v7, PGFv3, CHIRPS25 and CHIRPS05 slightly overestimated the rain gauge data, while the GSMaP_RNL underestimated the value with the largest bias for monthly data. The CHIRPS25 showed the best POD score, while TMPA 3B42v7 scored highest for FAR and CSI. Overall, TMPA 3B42v7 was found to be the best-performing dataset, while PGFv3 registered the worst performance for both for numerical (monthly) and categorical (daily) scores. All products captured the intensity of heavy rainfall (20–50 mm/day) rather well, but tended to underestimate the intensity for categories of no or little rain (rain 50 mm/day). In addition, overestimation occurred for low moderate (2–5 mm/day) to low heavy rain and (10–20 mm/day). In the case study of the extreme flooding event of 2006/2007 in the southern area of Peninsular Malaysia, TMPA 3B42v7 and GSMaP_RNL performed well in capturing most heavy rainfall events but tended to overestimate light rainfalls, consistent with their performance for the occurrence intensity of rainfall at different intensity level.

This study aims to provide a brief overview of four regional climate model (RCM) estimations for (Daily, Monthly, Seasonal, and Annual) averaged precipitation over the Wadi Chemora Basin in northeastern Algeria for the historical period (1970–2005) and future forecasts (2006–2100). Data from seven ground stations were compared to data from four RCMs: RCA4 driven by ICHEC-EC-EARTH and NOAA-GFDL-GFDL-ESM2M from MENA-CORDEX domain with intermediate resolution (25 km, 0.22°) and ALADIN and RegCM4 from MED-CORDEX domain with high resolution (12 km, 0.11°). In most time steps (Annual, Seasonal, Monthly, and Daily), the raw RCMs overestimated precipitation, but their performance improved significantly after applying gamma quantile mapping (GQM) bias correction method. The bias-corrected projections indicate decreases of seasonal rainfall for the near future (2010–2039), mid-century (2040–2069), and end of century (2070–2100) periods. Overall decreases in all seasons lead to the projected decrease in annual rainfall of an average of 66% by the end of the 21st century.