Welcome back to the HydroData Chronicles, a fantastic voyage through the interesting aspects of hydrological data with deep impacts on climate research and societal resilience. It is now the turn of Greece to shine, with this superlative effort from the National Observatory of Athens with NOAAN, the NOA Automatic Network outpacing many others, high in meteorological observation all over the region ...[Read More]
HydroData Chronicles: Celebrating 35 Years of Global Precipitation Monitoring with GPCC
Welcome back to the HydroData Chronicles, where we continue to explore the wealth of hydrological data shaping climate research worldwide. In this installment, we celebrate an incredible milestone — 35 years of global gridded precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC). The Origins of GPCC Founded by the Deutscher Wetterdienst under the auspices of the World Meteorol ...[Read More]
HydroData Chronicles: Piecing Together Italy’s Hydrological Puzzle with FOCA
Welcome back to the HydroData Chronicles! In our previous post, we explored the innovative pRecipe package developed by Mijael Rodrigo Vargas Godoy and Yannis Markonis in 2023 and its impact on precipitation research. Today, we shift our focus to Italy with the introduction of the Italian FlOod and Catchment Atlas (FOCA) database, introduced in 2023 by Pierluigi Claps, Giulia Evangelista, Daniele ...[Read More]
HydroData Chronicles: A global precipitation climatology toolbox and database
Welcome back to the HydroData Chronicles, where we uncover the hidden stories within hydrological data! In our last post, we explored a novel high-resolution, 40-year rainfall dataset covering the Contiguous United States (CONUS), developed developed by Emmanouil et al. in 2021. This time, we dive into the world of precipitation datasets with a promising new tool: the pRecipe package developed by ...[Read More]