A NEW RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE DATASET FOR THE RHINE BASIN

Description

For this new reforecasts hydrological dataset, we used a high-resolution hydrological model (30 arc sec.), with seamless parameter estimates using global soil- and land-use maps has. The model has been tested both for the Rhine river basin and other European basins. As part of these activities, we developed a high-resolution hourly-gridded observed rainfall, temperature and potential evaporation dataset for the Rhine (~1997-2015), which has been made available online.

(Potential) Categories of users

Hydrologists, environmental researchers

(Potential) applications to decision making in the water sector:

Analysis of hydrological systems in the recent past, better prediction of hydrological extremes

Links to relevant webpages

Temperature, radiation and Makkink potential evaporation forcing for hydrological modelling in the Rhine basin gridded hourly +

References/links to relevant IMPREX publications:

van Osnabrugge, B., Uijlenhoet, R., Weert, A. Contribution of potential evaporation forecasts to 10-day streamflow forecast skill for the Rhine River. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1453–1467, 2019 +

Contact

Albrecht Weerts

Added value of this modelling approach/model/results

High spatial and temporal resolution of the dataset

What decision can be improved with this modelling approach:

Validation of hydrological models for specific applications