ASR Advances in Science and Research ASR Adv. Sci. Res. 1992-0636 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/asr-6-39-2011 Development of a longterm dataset of solid/liquid precipitation Chimani B. 1 Böhm R. 1 Matulla C. 1 Ganekind M. 1 Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria 28 02 2011 6 1 39 43 Copyright: © 2011 B. Chimani et al. 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://asr.copernicus.org/articles/6/39/2011/asr-6-39-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://asr.copernicus.org/articles/6/39/2011/asr-6-39-2011.pdf

Solid precipitation (mainly snow, but snow and ice pellets or hail as well), is an important parameter for climate studies. But as this parameter usually is not available operationally before the second part of the 20th century and nowadays is not reported by automatic stations, information usable for long term climate studies is rare. Therefore a proxy for the fraction of solid precipitation based on a nonlinear relationship between the percentage of solid precipitation and monthly mean temperature was developed for the Greater Alpine Region of Europe and applied to the existing longterm high resolution temperature and precipitation grids (5 arcmin). In this paper the method is introduced and some examples of the resulting datasets available at monthly resolution for 1800–2003 are given.

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