[A-HW37] Global Drought Stress from Headwaters to Lowlands

[AHW37-P01] Assessment and comparative evaluation of SM2RAIN-ASCAT and ERA5 satellite-based precipitation products for drought monitoring in Morocco

*SAID EL GOUMI¹, SAKINE KOOHI², EL HOUSSAINE BOURAS³, NAFIA EL ALAOUY⁴, OUSSAMA NAIT-TALEB ¹, RACHIDA GUENDOUR¹, HASNAA CHOUIDDA¹, MOHAMED CHIKH ESSBITI¹, NASEM BADRELDIN⁵, SAMIRA KRIMISSA¹, ABDENBI ELALOUI¹, MUSTAPHA NAMOUS^1,6 (1. Data Science for Sustainable Earth Laboratory Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, 23000, Morocco, 2. Water Engineering Dept., Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran, 3. Center for Remote Sensing Application (CRSA), College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, 43150, Morocco, 4. Geosciences Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, 40000, Morocco, 5. Department of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, 13 Freedman Crescent, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, MB, Canada, 6. Faculte des Arts et des Sciences (FAFS), Universite de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

Keywords:Drought, SM2RAIN-ASCAT , ERA5, Standardized Precipitation Index, Rainfall, Morocco