Ten-year return levels of sub-daily extreme precipitation over Europe

Poschlod, Benjamin; Ludwig, Ralf; Sillmann, Jana

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-983-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-983-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-983-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Data description paper

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11 Mar 2021

Data description paper |

| 11 Mar 2021

Ten-year return levels of sub-daily extreme precipitation over Europe

Benjamin Poschlod, Ralf Ludwig, and Jana Sillmann

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-983-2021-supplement

Data sets

10-year return levels of precipitation over Europe based on the CRCM5-LE Benjamin Poschlod https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3878888

Short summary

This study provides a homogeneous data set of 10-year rainfall return levels based on 50 simulations of the Canadian Regional Climate Model v5 (CRCM5). In order to evaluate its quality, the return levels are compared to those of observation-based rainfall of 16 European countries from 32 different sources. The CRCM5 is able to capture the general spatial pattern of observed extreme precipitation, and also the intensity is reproduced in 77 % of the area for rainfall durations of 3 h and longer.