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| Titel |
The new WegenerNet climate station network web portal – A gateway to over 10 years of high-resolution precipitation data |
| VerfasserIn |
Jürgen Fuchsberger, Gottfried Kirchengast, Christoph Bichler, Thomas Kabas, Gunther Lenz, Armin Leuprecht |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2017
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
| Datensatznummer |
250139073
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-2242.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Feldbach region in southeast Austria, characteristic for experiencing a rich variety of
weather and climate patterns, has been selected as the focus area for a pioneering weather and
climate observation network at very high resolution: The WegenerNet comprises 153
meteorological stations measuring temperature, humidity, precipitation, and other parameters,
in a tightly spaced grid within an area of about 20 km × 15 km centered near the city of
Feldbach (46.93∘N, 15.90∘E). With its stations about every 2 km2, each with 5-min time
sampling, the network provides regular measurements since January 2007. Detailed
information is available in the recent description by Kirchengast et al. (2014) and via
www.wegcenter.at/wegenernet.
As a smaller "sister network" of the WegenerNet Feldbach region, the WegenerNet
Johnsbachtal consists of eleven meteorological stations (complemented by one hydrographic
station at the Johnsbach creek), measuring temperature, humidity, precipitation, radiation,
wind, and other parameters in an alpine setting at altitudes ranging from below 700 m to over
2100 m. Data are available partly since 2007, partly since more recent dates and have a
temporal resolution of 10 minutes.
The networks are set to serve as a long-term monitoring and validation facility for
weather and climate research and applications. Uses include validation of nonhydrostatic
models operated at 1-km-scale resolution and of statistical downscaling techniques (in
particular for precipitation), validation of radar and satellite data, study of orography–climate
relationships, and many others.
Quality-controlled station time series and gridded field data (spacing 200 m × 200 m)
are available in near-real time (data latency less than 1–2 h) for visualization and download
via a data portal (www.wegenernet.org). This data portal has been undergoing a complete
renewal over the last year, and now serves as a modern gateway to the WegenerNet’s more
than 10 years of high-resolution data.
The poster gives a brief introduction to the WegenerNet design and setup and shows a
detailed overview of the new data portal. It also focuses on showing examples for
high-resolution precipitation measurements, especially heavy-precipitation and convective
events.
Reference: Kirchengast, G., T. Kabas, A. Leuprecht, C. Bichler, and H. Truhetz (2014):
WegenerNet: A pioneering high-resolution network for monitoring weather and
climate. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 227–242, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00161.1. |
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