Validation of a new SAFRAN-based gridded precipitation product for Spain and comparisons to Spain02 and ERA-Interim

Quintana-Seguí, Pere; Turco, Marco; Herrera, Sixto; Miguez-Macho, Gonzalo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2187-2017

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Validation of a new SAFRAN-based gridded precipitation product for Spain and comparisons to Spain02 and ERA-Interim

Pere Quintana-Seguí, Marco Turco, Sixto Herrera, and Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

Data sets

SAFRAN analysis over Spain P. Quintana-Seguí https://doi.org/10.14768/MISTRALS-HYMEX.1388

Spain02: A set of gridded precipitation and temperature datasets Santander Meteorology Group http://meteo.unican.es/en/datasets/spain02

Short summary

The quality of two high-resolution precipitation datasets for Spain at the daily time scale is reported: the new SAFRAN-based dataset and Spain02. ERA-Interim is also included. The precipitation products are compared with observations. SAFRAN and Spain02 have very similar scores, and they perform better than ERA-Interim. The high-resolution gridded products overestimate the number of precipitation days. Both SAFRAN and Spain02 underestimate high precipitation events.