Extreme precipitation
The data consists in tables of estimated extreme precipitation quantities for precipitation durations ranging from 10 minutes to 30 days and return periods ranging from 2 to 200 years for each Belgian municipality.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-10-01
- Citation identifier
- RMI-be / extreme_precipitation
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Point of contact Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Owner
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Meteorological geographical features
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- Keywords
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Reporting INSPIRE
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federal government
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observation
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climatology
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precipitation
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extreme precipitation
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rainfall intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) analysis
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Belgian municipalities
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inspire
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Spatial scope
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 1816-10-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2016-10-01T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:4258
- Distribution format
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Name Version xlsx
1.0
PDF
1.0
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://opendata.meteo.be
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download
ftp://opendata24-me.oma.be/climate/extreme_precipitations/
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
- Statement
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Extreme precipitation are derived from a spatial regression model fitted on rainfall observations in Belgium from 1951 to 2010. More details can be found in the following references:
Van de Vyver, H. (2012) Spatial regression models for extreme precipitation in Belgium, Water Resour. Res., 48, W09549, doi :10.1029/2011WR011707.
Van de Vyver, H. (2013) Practical return level mapping for extreme precipitation in Belgium, RMI scientific and technical publication 062, 30 pages.
Metadata
- File identifier
- RMI_DATASET_EXTREME_PRECIPITATION XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-10-02
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Dutch; Flemish UTF8 German UTF8