Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-73-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-73-2015
29 Apr 2015
 | 29 Apr 2015

Precipitation climate maps of Belgium

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

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The paper discusses the derivation of precipitation climate maps over Belgium from daily observations available for the period 1981-2010. Several mapping approaches are compared in a cross-validation exercise. A large panel of climate maps are derived. In particular, the main spatio-temporal features of the annual cycle of rainfall in Belgium are extracted by principal component analysis (PCA).