EURADCLIM: the European climatological high-resolution gauge-adjusted radar precipitation dataset
Abstract ∼ 7700 rain gauges from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in order to substantially improve its quality. Characteristics of the radar, rain gauge and satellite datasets are presented, as well as a detailed account of the applied algorithms. The clutter-removal algorithms are effective while removing few precipitation echoes. The usefulness of EURADCLIM for quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) is confirmed by comparison against rain gauge accumulations employing scatter density plots, statistical metrics and a spatial verification. These show a strong improvement with respect to the original OPERA product. The potential of EURADCLIM to derive pan-European precipitation climatologies and to evaluate extreme precipitation events is shown. Specific attention is given to the remaining artifacts in and limitations of EURADCLIM. Finally, it is recommended to further improve EURADCLIM by applying algorithms to 3D instead of 2D radar data and by obtaining more rain gauge data for the radar–gauge merging. The EURADCLIM 1 and 24 h precipitation datasets are publicly available at 10.21944/7ypj-wn68 and 10.21944/1a54-gg96.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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EURADCLIM: the European climatological high-resolution gauge-adjusted radar precipitation dataset ; volume:15 ; number:3 ; year:2023 ; pages:1441-1464 ; extent:24
Earth system science data ; 15, Heft 3 (2023), 1441-1464 (gesamt 24)
- Creator
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Overeem, Aart
van den Besselaar, Else
van der Schrier, Gerard
Meirink, Jan Fokke
van der Plas, Emiel
Leijnse, Hidde
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10.5194/essd-15-1441-2023
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023040605270899269219
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 11:01 AM CEST
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- Overeem, Aart
- van den Besselaar, Else
- van der Schrier, Gerard
- Meirink, Jan Fokke
- van der Plas, Emiel
- Leijnse, Hidde
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