Historic Gridded Daily Makkink Evaporation for the Netherlands, 1910-2015

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties provides historic gridded daily Makkink evaporation data for the Netherlands from 1910 to 2015. The dataset is calculated from sunshine duration (1951-1981) and radiation (1981-2015) and has been transformed to the KNMI14 climate scenario for 2085 GL. It is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term hydrological cycles based on the 105-year daily evaporation record.
• Analyzing climate change impacts on evaporation rates based on the KNMI14 2085 GL scenario transformation.
• Calibrating regional climate models using gridded historical evaporation data for the Netherlands.
• Studying the transition in measurement methods from sunshine duration to radiation data between 1951 and 2015.

Strengths

• Covers a 105-year period from 1910 to 2015, providing a long-term climate record.
• Includes data transformed to a specific future climate scenario (KNMI14 2085 GL).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The number of underlying observations varies significantly between the periods 1910-1981 (5) and 1981-2015 (35).

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Calculated from sunshine duration (1951-1981) and radiation (1981-2015) observations.

Time Range

1910-2015

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Netherlands