Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-103-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-103-2015
03 Jun 2015
 | 03 Jun 2015

The FORBIO Climate data set for climate analyses

C. Delvaux, M. Journée, and C. Bertrand

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In the framework of the interdisciplinary FORBIO Climate research project, this paper explains how the gridded daily temperature (minimum and maximum) data set was generated from a consistent station network between 1980 and 2013 in Belgium. Data quality control procedures were applied to the station records to ensure that only valid measurements will be involved in the gridding process. The performance of different interpolation methods has been assessed.