Last updated: 30 Aug 2018
the following observations (point and grid data) are used for the verification purposes of WG5
table acquired by Verena Bessenbacher (from Meteoswiss) for the purposes of a WG3b COSMO project:
Satellite LST | EOBS | GLEAM | WECANN | CERES | ERUN | |
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type | thermal infrared from EUMETSAT | gridded meteorological stations | model fed with satellite and ground observations | solar-induced fluorescence, machine learning | satellite observation | EOBS gridded plus RUNOFF observations |
time resolution |
hourly 1991-2015 | daily 1950-2015 | daily 1980-2016 | monthly 2007-2015 | daily 2000-2017 | monthly 1950-2015 |
spatial resolution |
5x5 km Europe & Africa | 0.1°x0.1° Europe | 0.25°x0.25° global | 1°x1° global | 1°x1° global | 0.5°x0.5° Europe |
2m temperature [K] |
daily 2m-temperature (min, max, mean) [K] | |||||
ground temperature [K] |
radiative ground temperature [K] | |||||
SH [W m-2] |
daily sensible heat [Wm-2 ] monthly average | |||||
LH [W m-2] |
evapotranspiration [mm/day] | daily latent heat [Wm-2], monthly average | ||||
LW [W m-2] |
longwave radiation [Wm-2] | |||||
SW [W m-2] |
shortwave radiation [Wm-2] | |||||
Precipitation [mm/day] |
precipitation [mm/day] | |||||
Runoff [mm/day] |
runoff [mm/day] |
Observations of seven chosen European stations; project on behalf of the C-SRNWP Programme: see SRNWP-observations.