Accumulated 06-30 hour precipitation observations and operational ECMWF ensemble forecasts for Frankfurt airport, Germany. The observations are airport station observations (WMO station index 10637), the forecasts are gridded forecasts for the 0.25 degrees latitude/longitude box containing the station. Dates range from 2007-01-01 to 2017-01-01, days with missing values have been removed.
data("rain")A data frame with 3617 rows. The first column gives the dates, the second column are the observations. The remaining columns are the ensemble forecasts (high resolution HRES, 50 perturbed forecasts P1 to P50 and the control forecast CTR for the perturbed forecasts). The units of the forecasts and observations are mm/m^2.
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