A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950–2006 Export

@article{Haylock2008_climate_series, abstract = {We present a European land-only daily high-resolution gridded data set for precipitation and minimum, maximum, and mean surface temperature for the period 1950–2006. This data set improves on previous products in its spatial resolution and extent, time period, number of contributing stations, and attention to finding the most appropriate method for spatial interpolation of daily climate observations. The gridded data are delivered on four spatial resolutions to match the grids used in previous products as well as many of the rotated pole Regional Climate Models (RCMs) currently in use. Each data set has been designed to provide the best estimate of grid box averages rather than point values to enable direct comparison with RCMs. We employ a three-step process of interpolation, by first interpolating the monthly precipitation totals and monthly mean temperature using three-dimensional thin-plate splines, then interpolating the daily anomalies using indicator and universal kriging for precipitation and kriging with an external drift for temperature, then combining the monthly and daily estimates. Interpolation uncertainty is quantified by the provision of daily standard errors for every grid square. The daily uncertainty averaged across the entire region is shown to be largely dependent on the season and number of contributing observations. We examine the effect that interpolation has on the magnitude of the extremes in the observations by calculating areal reduction factors for daily maximum temperature and precipitation events with return periods up to 10 years. }, author = {Haylock, M. R. and Hofstra, N. and Tank, A. M. G. Klein and Klok, E. J. and Jones, P. D. and New, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {5419994}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008JD010201.shtml}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JD010201}, comment = {http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/ensembles.php}, day = {30}, doi = {10.1029/2008JD010201}, issn = {0148-0227}, journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres}, keywords = {climate, data, kriging, meteorology, precipitation, splines, temperature}, month = {October}, number = {D20}, pages = {D20119+}, posted-at = {2009-08-12 00:09:46}, priority = {2}, title = {A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950–2006}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JD010201}, volume = {113}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - Haylock2008_climate_series L3 - citeulike-article-id:5419994 N2 - We present a European land-only daily high-resolution gridded data set for precipitation and minimum, maximum, and mean surface temperature for the period 1950–2006. This data set improves on previous products in its spatial resolution and extent, time period, number of contributing stations, and attention to finding the most appropriate method for spatial interpolation of daily climate observations. The gridded data are delivered on four spatial resolutions to match the grids used in previous products as well as many of the rotated pole Regional Climate Models (RCMs) currently in use. Each data set has been designed to provide the best estimate of grid box averages rather than point values to enable direct comparison with RCMs. We employ a three-step process of interpolation, by first interpolating the monthly precipitation totals and monthly mean temperature using three-dimensional thin-plate splines, then interpolating the daily anomalies using indicator and universal kriging for precipitation and kriging with an external drift for temperature, then combining the monthly and daily estimates. Interpolation uncertainty is quantified by the provision of daily standard errors for every grid square. The daily uncertainty averaged across the entire region is shown to be largely dependent on the season and number of contributing observations. We examine the effect that interpolation has on the magnitude of the extremes in the observations by calculating areal reduction factors for daily maximum temperature and precipitation events with return periods up to 10 years. IS - D20 JF - Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres SN - 0148-0227 TI - A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950–2006 VL - 113 SP - D20119 KW - climate KW - data KW - kriging KW - meteorology KW - precipitation KW - splines KW - temperature N1 - http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/ensembles.php AU - Haylock, MR AU - Hofstra, N AU - Tank, Klein AU - Klok, EJ AU - Jones, PD AU - New, M PY - 2008/10/30/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JD010201 ER -