Title
High-resolution gridded hourly precipitation dataset for Peru (PISCOp_h)
Date Issued
01 December 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
recorded data
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
This article introduces a high-resolution (0.1°) gridded dataset of hourly precipitation across Peru for the period 2015–2020, called PISCOp_h. The product was developed using a temporal disaggregation technique based on the gridded daily precipitation dataset PISCOp and additional data from 309 automatic weather stations and three satellite precipitation products (IMERG-Early, PERSIANN-CCS, and GSMaP_NRT). The workflow of PISCOp_h involved the spatial interpolation of hourly precipitation and a bias correction of the diurnal rainfall cycle. Based on a technical validation, we demonstrated that PISCOp_h provides moderate to high efficiency in characterizing the frequency, intensity, and temporal coherence of hourly precipitation, particularly in central and southern Peru. PISCOp_h represents an important advance to construct gridded hourly precipitation products under challenging environmental conditions in, e.g., mountain regions with complex terrain. This new dataset provides a useful baseline for future studies in hydrology, climatology, and meteorology. The data collection described is available on figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5743166.
Volume
45
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias del medio ambiente
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85138077161
Source
Data in Brief
ISSN of the container
23523409
Sponsor(s)
Financial support was provided by the Fondo Para Intervenciones ante la Ocurrencia de Desastres Naturales (FONDES). The authors would like to thank Fabian Drenkhan for his valuable comments.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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