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DOI for Scientific and Technical Data
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_EU_M_V2_050 (for 0.5° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_EU_M_V2_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_EU_M_V2_250 (for 2.5° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_NORMALS_EU_M_V2_050 (for 0.5° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_NORMALS_EU_M_V2_100 (for 1.0° resolution)
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_NORMALS_EU_M_V2_250 (for 2.5° resolution)
Title
GPCC Homogenized Precipitation Analysis HOMPRA for Europe Version 2.0 (at 0.5°, 1.0°, 2.5°):
Homogenized Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation and Precipitation Normals from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data
Subtitle
Globally Gridded Homogenized Monthly Totals
Citation
For 0.5° grid resolution:
Rustemeier, Elke; Finger, Peter; Ziese, Markus ; Zora Schirmeister ; Tanja Winterrath
: GPCC Homogenized Precipitation Analysis HOMPRA for Europe Version 2.0 at 0.5°
: Homogenized Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation and Precipitation Normals from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_EU_M_V2_050 ,
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_NORMALS_EU_M_V2_050
For 2.0° grid resolution:
Rustemeier, Elke; Finger, Peter; Ziese, Markus ; Zora Schirmeister ; Tanja Winterrath
: GPCC Homogenized Precipitation Analysis HOMPRA for Europe Version 2.0 at 1.0°
: Homogenized Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation and Precipitation Normals from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_EU_M_V2_100 ,
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_NORMALS_EU_M_V2_100
For 2.5° grid resolution:
Rustemeier, Elke; Finger, Peter; Ziese, Markus ; Zora Schirmeister ; Tanja Winterrath
: GPCC Homogenized Precipitation Analysis HOMPRA for Europe Version 2.0 at 2.5°
: Homogenized Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation and Precipitation Normals from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data. DOI:
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_EU_M_V2_250 ,
10.5676/DWD_GPCC/HOMPRA_NORMALS_EU_M_V2_250
Creators
Rustemeier, Elke; Finger, Peter; Ziese, Markus ; Zora Schirmeister ; Tanja Winterrath
Publisher
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC,
http://gpcc.dwd.de/) at Deutscher Wetterdienst
Publication Year
2024
Summary
The new Homogenized Precipitation Analysis HOMPRA is focussing on the period 1951-2015 and consists of data from ca. 7916 stations over europe (with at least 80% complete years of precipitation values).
Method for break-point detection: approach of Caussinus and Mestre (Caussinus, Mestre 2004) ; Data correction: multiple linear regression (Mestre 2003).
This product is available on a regular latitude/longitude grid with a spatial resolution of 0.5° x 0.5°, 1.0° x 1.0°, and 2.5° x 2.5° latitude by longitude.
see also
Climate Data Monitoring WCDMP-No.85 at page 88
Peer-reviewed Articles
"Global gridded precipitation over land: a description of the new GPCC First Guess Daily product"
K. Schamm (1,2) M. Ziese (1), A. Becker (1), P. Finger (1), A. Meyer-Christoffer (1), U. Schneider (1), M. Schröder (2), and P. Stender (1)
(1) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(2) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Satellite Based Climate Monitoring, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
in Earth System Science Data, DOI:
10.5194/essd-6-49-2014
"GPCC's new land surface precipitation climatology based on quality-controlled in situ data and its role in quantifying the global water cycle"
U. Schneider, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, M. Ziese, B. Rudolf
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
in Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI:
10.1007/s00704-013-0860-x
"A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901-present"
A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B. Rudolf, K. Schamm, U. Schneider, and M. Ziese
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
in Earth System Science Data, DOI:
10.5194/essd-5-71-2013
"The GPCC Drought Index - a new, combined and gridded global drought index"
M. Ziese (1), U. Schneider (1), A. Meyer-Christoffer (1), K. Schamm (1), J. Vido (1,*), P. Finger (1), P. Bissoli (2), S.Pietsch (3), A. Becker(1)
(1) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(2) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Regionale Klimaüberwachung, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(3) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Agrarmeteorologische Beratung, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
(*) now at: Technical University Zvolen, Department of Natural Environment, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
in Earth System Science Data, DOI:
10.5194/essd-6-285-2014
"Evaluating the Hydrological Cycle over Land Using the Newly-Corrected Precipitation Climatology from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)"
U. Schneider , P. Finger , A. Meyer-Christoffer , E. Rustemeier, M. Ziese , A. Becker
(1) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, 63067 Offenbach/M., Germany
in Atmosphere 2017,8,52; DOI:
10.3390/atmos8030052
General user recommendations
Users are referred to the following gridded Global Precipitation Climate Centre (GPCC) products:
GPCC Precipitation Analysis Climatology 1951-2000 (
GPCC_CLIMAT) with high representativeness, for application as a reference, and for utilization of the anomaly interpolation method.
GPCC Precipitation Analysis Monthly (
GPCC_MONTHLY) with high accuracy, for, e.g., verification of models, or for analysis of historical global precipitation, or for research concerning the global water cycle, e.g., teleconnection analyses.
GPCC Precipitation Analysis Daily (
GPCC_FD_D) is recommended to be used when the daily precipitation information is of highest importance, e.g. for analyses of extreme events and related statistics at daily resolution.
GPCC HOMPRA-Europe (
HOMPRA-Europe) with homogenized precipitation data, suitable for trend analyses.
GPCC Monitoring Product (
GPCC_MP) with high availability and reasonable timeliness, for applications like calibration of satellite data, or early annual reporting.
GPCC First Guess Monthly Product (
GPCC_FG) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.
GPCC First Guess Daily Product (
GPCC_FG_D) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.
GPCC Drought Index Product (
GPCC_DI_M) with high timeliness, to be applied for, e.g., drought monitoring.
Please notice also the
GPCC Download Gate with the current versions of all GPCC datasets and additional informations.
Version
2.0
Temporal Coverage
Monthly values: January 1951 - December 2015 , Normals: January - December
Spatial Coverage
Latitude: 30.0° to 80.0°; Longitude: -30.0° to 50.0°
Data Format(s)
gzip compressed NetCDF
format description
Tools
List of Software for Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data
show list
Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer
Panoply Home
Climate Data Operators CDO
CDO Home
Datasize
min. 30 KByte - max. 40 MByte per gzip archive
Contact
Dr. Markus Ziese, Head
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
c/o Deutscher Wetterdienst
Postfach 10 04 65
D-63004 Offenbach/Main
GERMANY
e-mail:
gpcc@dwd.de
Tel.: + 49 (0)69 / 8062-2973
Fax: + 49 (0)69 / 8062-3987
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