DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.11413
title: Temporal and spatial high-resolution climate data (1961-2020) for the German National Forest Inventory derived from observations

description: <strong>Abstract:</strong> Climate time series for Germany derived from observations of the German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst / DWD) provided in daily resolution at a grid width of 250 meters for the period from 1961 to 2020 (current status February 2023). The following variables were processed: Daily total global radiation, separately for a horizontal and an inclined plane; daily total precipitation; daily mean, minimum and maximum 2m-air temperature; daily mean water vapor saturation deficit; daily mean wind speed. The temperature data sets are available in two different versions: V5 including a residual correction and V6 without.

<strong>TableOfContents:</strong> Daily total global radiation at horizontal plane (grhds); daily total global radiation at inclined plane (grids); daily total precipitation (rrds); daily mean water vapor saturation deficit (sddm); daily mean 2m-air temperature (tadm); daily minimum 2m-air temperature (tadn); daily maximum 2m-air temperature; daily mean wind speed (wsdm)

<strong>TechnicalInfo:</strong> dimension: 2578 columns x 3476 rows; temporalExtent_startDate: 1961-01-01 00:00:00; temporalExtent_endDate: 2020-12-31 23:59:59; temporalDuration: 60; temporalDurationUnit: a; temporalResolution: 1; temporalResolutionUnit: d; spatialResolution: 250; spatialResolutionUnit: m; horizontalResolutionXdirection: 250; horizontalResolutionXdirectionUnit: m; horizontalResolutionYdirection: 250; horizontalResolutionYdirectionUnit: m; verticalResolution: none; verticalResolutionUnit: none

<strong>Methods:</strong> Spatialization of gridded climate fields is performed, merging Model Output Statistics (MOS) downscaling with surface parameterization techniques (Böhner and Antonic, 2009; Böhner and Bechtel, 2018) to account for terrain-forced fine-scale topoclimatic variations. For a comprehensive description of the methods, see Wehberg and Böhner (2023).

A description of the methods used can be found in:

Dietrich, H.; Wolf, T.; Kawohl, T.; Wehberg, J.; Kändler, G.; Mette, T.; & Röder, A. & Böhner, J. (2019). Temporal and Spatial High-Resolution Climate Data from 1961 to 2100 for the German National Forest Inventory (NFI). Annals of Forest Science 76, 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-018-0788-5

Kawohl, T.; Dietrich, H.; Wehberg, J.; Böhner, J.; Wolf, T. & Röder, A. (2017). Das Klima in 80 Jahren – Wein- statt Waldbau? – AFZ-Der Wald 15: 32-35.

For GIS-based Terrain-parameterization methods and their application in statistical-dynamical downscaling see, e.g.:

Conrad, O., Bechtel, B., Bock, M., Dietrich, H., Fischer, E., Gerlitz, L., Wehberg, J., Wichmann, V., & Böhner, J. (2015). System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 1991–2007, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1991-2015.

Böhner, J. & Bechtel, B. (2018): GIS in Climatology and Meteorology. – In: Huang, B. [Ed.]: Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems. – Vol. 2, pp. 196–235. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09633-0.

<strong>Quality:</strong> --

<strong>Units:</strong> MJ/m2; MJ/m2; mm; hPa; degC; degC; degC; m/s

<strong>GeoLocation:</strong> westBoundCoordinate: 278750; westBoundCoordinateUnit: m; eastBoundCoordinate: 923000; eastBoundCoordinateUnit: m; southBoundCoordinate: 5234000; southBoundCoordinateUnit: m; northBoundCoordinate: 6102750; northBoundCoordinateUnit: m; ProjectCoordinateSystem: Transverse_Mercator; ProjectionCoordinateSystemParameters: [+proj=utm +datum=WGS84 +zone=32 +no_defs]. geoLocationPlace:Germany; UTMZone: 32

<strong>Size:</strong> Files are first packed into zip-archives and then further grouped together into one tar-archive per variable and 10-year period. The original file size is between about 4 and 7.5 GB per year and variable. The file size of the tar archives ranges between 3 GB and 70 GB.

<strong>Format:</strong> SAGA-Grid (.sgrd), https://saga-gis.sourceforge.io/en/index.html

<strong>DataSources:</strong> DWD Climate Data Center (CDC): Historical daily station observations (temperature, pressure, precipitation,sunshine duration, etc.) for Germany, version v21.3, 2021. Dataset-ID: urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::obsgermany-climate-daily-kl-historical and DWD Climate Data Center (CDC): Historical daily precipitation observations for Germany, version v21.3,2021. Dataset-ID: urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::obsgermany-climate-daily-more_precip-historical. http://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/daily/

<strong>Contact:</strong> Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner, Universität Hamburg, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Institute of Geography, Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg, juergen.boehner (at) uni-hamburg.de; https://www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/en/geographie/mitarbeiterverzeichnis/boehner.html

<strong>Webpage</strong>: https://www.waldklimafonds.de/ and https://www.lwf.bayern.de/boden-klima/wasserhaushalt/223446/index.php
description: Created within project "Veränderte Produktivität und Kohlenstoffspeicherung der Wälder Deutschlands angesichts des Klimawandels" (WP-KS-KW, https://www.waldklimafonds.de/index.php?id=13913&fkz=22WC400312) funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). The data update until 2020 was performed in the project "Wasserhaushalt im Klimawandel" (WHH-KW, https://www.fnr.de/index.php?id=11150&fkz=22WK414104) funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) within the framework of the Forest Climate Fund.