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Development of a longterm dataset of solid/liquid precipitation
Solid precipitation (mainly snow, but snow and ice pellets or hail as well),
is an important parameter for climate studies. But as this parameter usually
is not available operationally before the second part of the 20th
century and nowadays is not reported by automatic stations, information
usable for long term climate studies is rare. Therefore a proxy for the
fraction of solid precipitation based on a nonlinear relationship between
the percentage of solid precipitation and monthly mean temperature was
developed for the Greater Alpine Region of Europe and applied to the
existing longterm high resolution temperature and precipitation grids (5 arcmin). In this paper the method is introduced and some examples of the
resulting datasets available at monthly resolution for 1800–2003 are given