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

A so-called disaggregation technique is used to combine daily rain gauge measurements and hourly radar composites in order to produce a dataset of hourly precipitation in Germany on a grid with a horizontal resolution of 7 km for the years 2001-2004. This state-of-the-art observation-based dataset o...

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Main Authors: Marcus Paulat, Christoph Frei, Martin Hagen, Heini Wernli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2008-12-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0332