Extreme precipitation

The data consists in tables of estimated extreme precipitation quantities for precipitation durations ranging from 10 minutes to 30 days and return periods ranging from 2 to 200 years for each Belgian municipality.

Date (Publication): 2016-10-01

Identifier: RMI-be / extreme_precipitation

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Owner

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

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

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Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Metadata 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

xlsx ( 1.0 )
PDF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource: RMI opendata portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
RMI opendata portal

OnLine resource

Individual PDF files for each commune (identified by their NIS number), available in French and Dutch. Individual XLSX files for each commune (identified by their NIS number ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )

Individual PDF files for each commune (identified by their NIS number), available in French and Dutch.

Individual XLSX files for each commune (identified by their NIS number

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

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.