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Combined high-resolution rainfall and wind data collected for 3 months on a wind farm 110 km southeast of Paris (France)
Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Jerry Jose
Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia
Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Daniel Schertzer
Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, France
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The Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity laboratory of École des Ponts ParisTech (https://hmco.enpc.fr) has made a data set of high-resolution atmospheric measurements (rainfall, wind, temperature, pressure, and humidity) available. It comes from a campaign carried out on a meteorological mast located on a wind farm in the framework of the Rainfall Wind Turbine or Turbulence project (RW-Turb; supported by the French National Research Agency – ANR-19-CE05-0022).
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