Meteorological, Hydrological and Oceanographic Database

  • ID:
    sensing-meteo-21
  • Source Organisation:
    C3S-CDS
  • Name:
    LAPrec - Alpine gridded monthly precipitation data since 1871 derived from in-situ observations
  • Type:
    data (format: NetCDF-4)
  • Area:
    climate data
  • Quality:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/insitu-gridded-observations-alpine-precipitation?tab=documentation
  • Availability:
    Open, to be requested
  • Update frequency:
    Every second year
  • Legal restrictions:
    None
  • Description:
    This dataset, also known as the Long-term Alpine Precipitation Reconstruction (LAPrec), provides gridded fields of monthly precipitation for the Alpine region (eight countries).
  • Variable(s):
    Precipitation
  • Spatial coverage:
    Alpine region (approximately 43–49°N, 4–17.5°E, land area only)
  • Spatial resolution:
    5 km
  • Temporal coverage:
    1971 - 2020
  • Temporal resolution:
    monthly
  • Resource:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/insitu-gridded-observations-alpine-precipitation?tab=overview
  • API Protocol:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/how-to-api