A gridded dataset of hourly precipitation in Germany: Its construction, climatology and application

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 719-732

  Paulat, Marcus ^a,d   Frei, Christoph ^b   Hagen, Martin ^c   Wernli, Heini ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DETECTION LIMITS; DISAGGREGATION TECHNIQUES; DIURNAL CYCLE; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OPERATIONAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAIN GAUGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; ELBE BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; PREALPS;

EID: 63449086312     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0332     Document Type: Article

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