Selected Wet and Dry Years: German Precipitation Maps for 1966 and 1976

Geospatial maps show precipitation heights across Germany for the hydrological years 1966 and 1976. The data has a resolution of 1 km² and has been corrected for systematic measurement error. It was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.

Use Cases

• Compare spatial patterns of precipitation between a wet year (1966) and a dry year (1976) based on the described years.
• Analyze corrected precipitation data for systematic measurement errors as mentioned in the description.
• Study hydrological extremes using the 1 km² resolution grid data.
• Validate hydrological models with historical, high-resolution precipitation maps.

Strengths

• Data is corrected for systematic measurement error.
• Provides high-resolution (1 km²) grid data.
• Covers two distinct hydrological years representing wet and dry conditions.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Likely derived from ground-based precipitation measurements, corrected and interpolated to a grid.

Time Range

Hydrological years 1966 (November 1965 to October 1966) and 1976 (November 1975 to October 1976).

Geography

Germany (implied by the publishing organization).