Date (Revision)

2024-03-14

Citation identifier

RMI-be / radclim

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency

Continual

User defined maintenance frequency

P0Y0M0DT0H5M0S

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Meteorological geographical features

Keywords

• federal government

• radclim

Spatial scope

• National

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

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Classification

Unclassified

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

1000  m

Language

English

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date

2017-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2022-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
ODIM H5	2.2

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

RADCLIM is derived from weather-radar reflectivity measurements by RMI software (RMIRADLIB2). The processing uses 3D reflectivity measurements from the radars in Wideumont and Jabbeke (RMI, Belgium), Helchteren (VMM, Belgium) and Avesnois (Météo-France, France), together with automatic rain-gauge observations from the Service Public de Wallonie (SPW), Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij (VMM), and Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium / Hydrologisch Informatiecentrum (WL/HIC) networks and provides gridded precipitation accumulations of 5 minutes and 1 hour. The 1-hour accumulation product is computed by summing consecutive 5-minute precipitation estimates.

The processing chain includes quality control of radar measurements, including handling of permanent contamination and beam blockage, as well as clutter identification using satellite cloudiness products, vertical profiles of reflectivity and image texture. Radar reflectivity is then converted to ground rainfall rate, missing data are interpolated, and radar information is merged into a composite product. Gauge information is incorporated through mean field bias correction and External Drift Kriging (EDK).

Metadata

File identifier

RMI_DATASET_RADCLIM XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-03-10

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8
Dutch; Flemish	UTF8
German	UTF8