Bias-Adjusted Climate Parameters for the Rhine Catchment from KNMI-RACMO-ECEARTH

KNMI-RACMO-ECEARTH datasets provide bias-adjusted precipitation, temperature, and potential evaporation for the German and Swiss part of the Rhine catchment. The data has hourly resolution for precipitation and daily for temperature and evaporation, aggregated into 134 subcatchments. The dataset is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Hydrological modeling based on bias-adjusted precipitation and evaporation data
• Climate impact assessment for the Rhine catchment based on temperature and precipitation projections
• Water resource planning based on subcatchment-aggregated climate variables

Strengths

• Data is bias-adjusted, which may improve accuracy for hydrological applications
• Aggregated into 134 subcatchments, facilitating basin-scale analysis
• Includes multiple climate variables: precipitation, temperature (mean/max/min), and potential evaporation

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Bias-adjusted outputs from the KNMI-RACMO-ECEARTH climate model.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

German and Swiss part of the Rhine catchment, upstream of Lobith.