Precipitation - Long term average 1981-2010 - Yearly precipitation surplus

Gridded files of average yearly precipitation surplus per year in the Netherlands. Based on 304 precipitation observations of the voluntary network and 20 Makkink evaporation observations of the automatic weather stations (AWS)

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset name RD4SP
Dataset version 1
Dataset edition 7
Dataset manager KNMI klimaatdesk
Maintainer KNMI Data Services
Publication timestamp 2017-10-24T11:18:27Z
Reference system identifier EPSG28992
North bound latitude 53.58
East bound longitude 7.3
South bound latitude 50.7
West bound longitude 3.18
Dataset start time 1981-01-01
Dataset end time 2011-01-01
Update frequency asNeeded
Status completed
Identifier urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::RD4SP/1/
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Lineage statement Precipitation surplus is calculated by subtracting the evaporation map from the precipitation map. The interpolation method for evaporation is Thin Plate Spline (TPS). The number of evaporation observations is 20. The interpolation method for precipitation is ordinary kriging. The nugget is zero and the variogrammodel is exponential, The number of precipitation observations is 304.
Purpose Climate Atlas
Supplemental information http://www.knmi.nl/bibliotheek/knmipubTR/TR335.pdf
Use limitation No use limitations
Last metadata update March 28, 2022, 12:43 (UTC)