Metereological Database

  • ID:
    sensing-meteo-14
  • Source Organisation:
    Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, IPMA)
  • Name:
    Daily gridded precipitation dataset over mainland Portugal
  • Type:
    data (format: ASCII, NetCDF)
  • Area:
    climate data
  • Quality:
    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JD015481
  • Availability:
    Open
  • Update frequency:
    None
  • Legal restrictions:
    Free for non-commercial research and education projects only. For commercial applications you should contact IPMA, I.P. ( info @ ipma.pt ).
  • Description:
    The dataset PT02 is based on 806 stations, 188 meteorological stations from Portuguese Meteorological Service (IM) and 618 rain gauges from the National Water Institute (INAG). Most of these (726) stations have at least 10 years of data. The interpolation method applied to create the PT02 dataset was the ordinary kriging.
  • Variable(s):
    Precipitation
  • Spatial coverage:
    Portugal
  • Spatial resolution:
    0.2°
  • Temporal coverage:
    1950 - 2003
  • Temporal resolution:
    daily
  • Resource:
    https://www.ipma.pt/en/produtoseservicos/index.jsp?page=dataset.pt02.xml
  • API Protocol:
    N.A.