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16 Mar 2016
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| 16 Mar 2016
Probabilistic precipitation and temperature downscaling of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis over France
Laurie Caillouet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Irstea, UR HHLY, Hydrology and Hydraulics Research Unit, 5 rue de
la Doua – BP32108, 69916 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
Jean-Philippe Vidal
Irstea, UR HHLY, Hydrology and Hydraulics Research Unit, 5 rue de
la Doua – BP32108, 69916 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
Eric Sauquet
Irstea, UR HHLY, Hydrology and Hydraulics Research Unit, 5 rue de
la Doua – BP32108, 69916 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
Benjamin Graff
Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), 2 rue André Bonin, 69004
Lyon, France
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Short summary
This paper describes a daily high-resolution reconstruction of precipitation and temperature fields in France from 1871 onwards. A statistical method linking atmospheric circulation to local precipitation is refined for taking advantage of recently published global long-term atmospheric and oceanic reconstructions. The resulting data set allows filling in the spatial and temporal data gaps in historical surface observations, and improving our knowledge on the local-scale climate variability.
This paper describes a daily high-resolution reconstruction of precipitation and temperature...
