Research

Ranking Preciptiation Events

A method for ranking daily precipitation events is presented based on the most comprehensive database of daily gridded precipitation dataset available for the Iberian Peninsula spanning from 1950 to 2008 (Ramos et al, 2014) . The magnitude of an event is obtained after considering the area affected as well as its intensity in every grid point and taking into account the daily normalized departure from climatology. Different precipitation rankings for the extended winter (October to March) are presented considering the entire Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and also the six largest river basins in the Iberian Peninsula.

The Ranking_Iberia.xls file present the Top #500 precipitation extreme events for the entire Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and for the Minho, Douro, Tagus, Guadiana, Guadalquivir and Ebro river basins.

Ranking

In addition, accumulated ranking (3, 5 ,7 and 10 days) based on of daily gridded precipitation dataset over Iberian Peninsula spanning from 1950 to 2008 is also presented (Ramos et al., 2016).

The Ranking_accumulated.zip file present the different Top #100 precipitation accumulated rankings of extreme events for the entire Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and for the Minho, Douro, Tagus, Guadiana, Guadalquivir and Ebro river basins. In addition, precipitation maps for the Top #25 rankings are also shown.

Ranking Accumulated