obsprecip: Daily precipitation data at three locations in Norway.

Description

Observed (obsprecip) and simulated (modprecip) daily precipitation data for three locations in Norway covering the 1961 - 1990 period.

Usage

data(obsprecip)
data(modprecip)

Arguments

Format

Data frame(s) with rows representing days and with the following 3 variables.

MOSS: Daily Precipitation at Moss [mm/day]
GEIRANGER: Daily Precipitation at Geiranger [mm/day]
BARKESTAD: Daily Precipitation at Barkestad [mm/day]

Source

The observations are taken form the observation network of the Norwegian meteorological institute (www.met.no). The data are available for download at http://eklima.met.no.

Details

The time series in obsprecip stem from the observation-system of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

The time series in modprecip are based on simulations of HIRHAM2/NorACIA regional climate model forced with simulation the HadAM3H. The simulation setup is further described in Forland et al. 2011. The simulations are free-running and there is consequently no direct correspondence in the temporal evolution of modprecip and obsprecip. NOTE that all months in the modelled data (modprecip) have 30 days (in contrast to the observations (obsprecip) which have true calender days.

References

Forland, E. J.; Benestad, R.; Hanssen-Bauer, I.; Haugen, J. E. & Skaugen, T. E. Temperature and Precipitation Development at Svalbard 1900-2100. Advances in Meteorology, 2011, Volume 2011, 893790, doi: 10.1155/2011/893790.

Examples

Run this code

data(obsprecip)
data(modprecip)

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