MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland v.1.0.0 [Dataset]

Abstract

[EN] A monthly precipitation gridded data set over mainland Spain between December 1915 and December 2015. The dataset combines surface observations from the National Climate Data Bank (NCDB) of the Spanish national climate and weather service (AEMET) and new data rescued from meteorological yearbooks published prior to 1951 that was never incorporated into the NCDB. The yearbooks data represented a significant improvement of the dataset, as it almost doubled the number of weather stations available during the first decades of the 20th century, the period when the dataset was more scarce. The final dataset contains records from over 10k stations. Spatial interpolation was performed using geostatistical techniques over a regular 0.1° × 0.1° grid.

[ES] Conjunto de datos en rejilla de precipitación mensual en la España peninsular, entre diciembre de 1915 y diciembre de 2015. El conjunto de datos utilizado combina observaciones del Banco Nacional de Datos de AEMET y nuevos datos rescatados de los anuarios climáticos publicados con anterioridad a 1951, y que casi duplican la información existente sobre la primera mitad del siglo 20. El conjunto final contiene información de más de 10.000 observatorios. Se utilizaron técnicas geoestadísticas para interpolar espacialmente las observaciones sobre una rejilla regular de 0.1° × 0.1°.