Dataset of pan-European 1-h OPERA radar precipitation accumulations adjusted with rain gauge accumulations from Netatmo personal weather stations
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Ground-based weather radars provide precipitation estimates with wide coverage and high spatiotemporal resolution, but usually need adjustment with rain gauge data to obtain a reasonable accuracy. The (near) real-time availability and density of rain gauge networks operated by official institutes, especially national meteorological and hydrological services, is often relatively low. Crowdsourced rain gauge networks typically have a much higher density than networks from official institutes. Data from PWSs from brand Netatmo were obtained. Here, pan-European 1-h radar precipitation accumulations have been adjusted with 1-h rain gauge accumulations from personal weather stations (PWSs) for each clock-hour. The radar data were obtained from the Operational Program on the Exchange of weather RAdar information (OPERA) over the period 1 September 2019–31 August 31 2020. Two statistical methods and a satellite cloud type mask have been applied to the OPERA data to further remove non-meteorological echoes. Although not all these methods could be applied in (near) real-time, the OPERA dataset is representative of near (real-time) data, because these methods do only concern …
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