Table 6.

Evaluation of merged data and the selected datasets based on in-situ data in 2017–2018.

Station	R				ME (mm/day)
	Merge	GPM-IMERG	GSMaP-MVK	PERSIANN	Merge	GPM-IMERG	GSMaP-MVK	PERSIANN
Chabahar	0.95 (2)	0.95 (2)	0.95 (2)	0.97 (1)	0.45 (3)	0.73 (4)	0.12 (2)	0.02 (1)
Iranshahr	0.79 (2)	0.81 (1)	0.72 (4)	0.76 (3)	0.10 (2)	0.15 (3)	0.24 (4)	0.00 (1)
Khash	0.88 (1)	0.79 (2)	0.72 (3)	0.67 (4)	0.07 (2)	0.02 (1)	0.28 (4)	0.11 (3)
Mirjaveh	0.67 (3)	0.68 (2)	0.90 (1)	0.51 (4)	0.06 (1)	0.12 (3)	0.07 (2)	0.12 (3)
Nik Shahr	0.98 (1)	0.94 (2)	0.87 (3)	0.84 (4)	0.28 (3)	0.55 (4)	0.26 (2)	0.02 (1)
Nosrat Abad	0.86 (3)	0.73 (4)	0.96 (1)	0.88 (2)	0.02 (1)	0.03 (2)	0.11 (4)	0.10 (3)
Rask	0.58 (1)	0.57 (2)	0.55 (3)	0.55 (3)	0.25 (3)	0.46 (4)	0.19 (2)	0.11 (1)
Saravan	0.50 (3)	0.55 (2)	0.83 (1)	0.48 (4)	0.19 (3)	0.34 (4)	0.12 (1)	0.15 (2)
Zabol	0.95 (1)	0.89 (2)	0.95 (1)	0.82 (3)	0.16 (2)	0.19 (3)	0.03 (1)	0.23 (4)
Zahedan	0.79 (2)	0.69 (3)	0.91 (1)	0.60 (4)	0.04 (1)	0.07 (2)	0.09 (3)	0.10 (4)
Zehak	0.75 (2)	0.72 (4)	0.74 (3)	0.77 (1)	0.14 (2)	0.18 (4)	0.06 (1)	0.16 (3)

Note: The numbers in parentheses represents the rank of each dataset for the corresponding metrics.