Date (Publication)

2016-10-01

Citation identifier

RMI-be / extreme_precipitation

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Owner

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Meteorological geographical features

Keywords

• Reporting INSPIRE

• federal government

• observation

• climatology

• precipitation

• extreme precipitation

• rainfall intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) analysis

• Belgian municipalities

• inspire

Spatial scope

• National

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

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date

1816-10-01T00:00:00

End date

2016-10-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
xlsx	1.0
PDF	1.0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://opendata.meteo.be

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download	ftp://opendata24-me.oma.be/climate/extreme_precipitations/

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

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

2025-09-23

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8
Dutch; Flemish	UTF8
German	UTF8