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Regional improvement of global reanalyses by means of a new long-term Mediterranean hindcasted precipitation dataset: a first study over the Iberian Peninsula
1Área de Medio Físico, Ente Público Puertos del Estado (EPPE), Madrid, Spain
2Escuela de Informática, Campus de Segovia, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
3Facultad de CC. Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
4Instituto Nacional de Meteorología, Madrid, Spain
Abstract. Generation of a Mediterranean long-term (1958-2001) homogeneous high resolution environmental database constituted the main objective whitin the HIPOCAS Project. The high number of parameters included in this database allows a complete characterization of Mediterranean storms. In this paper, the HIPOCAS precipitation reliability over the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands is evaluated against long-term in-situ observations from Iberia. In order to provide a more complete study, comparisons of the HIPOCAS field with NCEP/NCAR and ERA global reanalysis show the important improvement in the characterisation of the observed precipitation introduced by the HIPOCAS hindcast.
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Citation: Sotillo, M. G., Martín, M. L., Valero, F., and Luna, M. Y.: Regional improvement of global reanalyses by means of a new long-term Mediterranean hindcasted precipitation dataset: a first study over the Iberian Peninsula, Adv. Geosci., 7, 307-311, doi:10.5194/adgeo-7-307-2006, 2006. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
