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ROCADA: a gridded daily climatic dataset over Romania (1961–2013) for nine meteorological variables

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Daily records of nine meteorological variables covering the interval 1961–2013 were used in order to create a state-of-the-art homogenized climatic dataset over Romania at a spatial resolution of 0.1°. All meteorological stations with full data records, as well as stations with up to 30 % missing data, were used for the following variables: air pressure (150 stations); minimum, maximum, and average air temperature (150 stations); soil temperature (127 stations); precipitation (188 stations); sunshine hours (135 stations); cloud cover (104 stations); relative humidity (150 stations). For each parameter, the data series were first homogenized with the software MASH (Multiple Analysis of Series for Homogenization); then, the data series were gridded by means of the software MISH (Meteorological Interpolation based on Surface Homogenized Data). The datasets are freely available on request on the PANGAEA data portal (doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.833627).

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Acknowledgments

Dr. Tamas Szentimrey (Hungarian Meteorological Service) is kindly acknowledged for his help on the homogenization and interpolation software. We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECA&D project (http://www.ecad.eu). The APHRODITE dataset was downloaded from www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip. We thank the two anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions, which led to an overall improvement in the original manuscript. This work has been realized within the framework of the EU-FP7 project EURO4 M, code: 242093 (www.euro4m.eu).

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Dumitrescu, A., Birsan, MV. ROCADA: a gridded daily climatic dataset over Romania (1961–2013) for nine meteorological variables. Nat Hazards 78, 1045–1063 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-1757-z

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