SPHERA High Resolution Reanalysis over Italy - Hourly accumulated total precipitation

Please refer to the latest-released version (v2) of this dataset SPHERA (High Resolution REAnalysis over Italy) is a convection-permitting regional reanalysis developed by ARPAE-Emilia Romagna and publicly available. The SPHERA domain covers Italy and the surrounding seas with a horizontal resolution of 2.2km. The temporal coverage corresponds to the period 1995-2020 and the dataset is available at a hourly frequency. SPHERA reanalysis was developed using the Numerical Weather Prediction model COSMO (www.cosmo-model.org) nested in the global reanalysis ERA5 produced by ECMWF. Moreover, upper-air and surface observations were assimilated at the convection-permitting scale by the COSMO nudging scheme. This record reports the hourly accumulated total precipitation for the period 1995-2020. Update 09/10/2025: tpH Dataset Version 2 Released: A new version of the dataset (v2) has been published, incorporating the following improvements and corrections: Precipitation data have been cleaned to remove duplicated fields that were inadvertently included in the initial release. Additionally, the data have been decumulated to represent hourly precipitation values. In the original version, precipitation was reported as accumulations increasing over the day from 00 UTC to 23 UTC.This format has now been replaced by actual hourly precipitation totals, offering a representation that is more relevant and useful for most applications. Grid inconsistencies present in some GRIB messages have been resolved to ensure structural uniformity across the dataset. Data have been rescued for some of the data holes. In the cases when only 1 hour was missing from the original extraction, the field has been produced by averaging the two fields associated with the previous and next hours to ensure the most continuous data series as possible. Particularly this is the case for the following grib messages: 23 UTC of 31 December 1995 23 UTC of 31 December 1998 23 UTC of 19 February 2020 23 UTC of 13-17-22-30 July 2020 23 UTC of 4-14 August 2020 Other fields currently available on Zenodo are the surface relative humidity at 2-meter height (over three different records due to space constraints): 1995-2003: https://zenodo.org/uploads/12724026 2004-2012: https://zenodo.org/uploads/12724104 2013-2020: https://zenodo.org/uploads/12724140 and the hourly surface air temperature at 2-meter height: 1995-2003: https://zenodo.org/records/12567563 2004-2012: https://zenodo.org/records/12582246 2013-2020: https://zenodo.org/records/12582797 Details on the SPHERA dataset production, as well as data verification against surface observations are reported in peer-reviewed publications. See References.