Daily Peak Wind Gust series

INFO ABOUT THE DATA YOU ARE ACCESSING TO

You are here accessing to the homogenized daily peak wind gust (DPWG) series created in the following paper:

Minola L., Azorin-Molina C., Guijarro J. A., Zhang G., Son S.-W., & Chen D. (2021): Climatology of near-surface daly peak wind gusts across Scandinavia: observations and model simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

The analysis of the above paper were carried based on this dataset.

All the homogenised DPWG series and related info are included in the text files named:
(1) ‘Info_stations.txt’
(2) ‘DPWG_series.txt’

If you have problems to access to the data and/or questions about it, please contact Deliang Chen:
[e-mail]

WHAT YOU FIND IN THE TEXT FILES

‘Info_stations.txt’ provides info about the measuring stations used for this study. In particular, columns refer to:
(Column 1) Station label - for the identification of the daily peak wind gust series in the ‘DPWG_series.txt’
(Column 2) Measuring station name
(Column 3) ID station number
(Column 4) Nation - Finland, Norway, or Sweden
(Column 5) Latitude
(Column 6) Longitude
(Column 7) Elevation [m a.s.l.]
(Column 8) Type of station - Coast, inland, or mountain

‘DPWG_series.txt’ contains the homogenized DPWG series. In particular, columns refer to:
(Column 1) Year
(Column 2) Month
(Column 3) Day
(Column 4) Station_1 - DPWG observations for Station #1
(Column 5) Station_2 - DPWG observations for Station #2
(Column 6) …
…
(Column 130) Station_127 - DPWG observations for Station #127

HOW TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CITE THE DATA

If you have downloaded and used the data, then please:

(1) cite the dataset by indicating the following publication

Minola L., Azorin-Molina C., Guijarro J. A., Zhang G., Son S.-W., & Chen D. (2021): Climatology of near-surface daly peak wind gusts across Scandinavia: observations and model simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

(2) acknowledge Minola & coauthors for making these data available.

Lorenzo Minola & Coauthors, 3rd March 2021