Level A Pan Europe Precipitation, E-HYPE 2.5

Time-series for 1961 to 2001 describing the input forcing precipitation for each E-HYPE subbasin. The data describes daily values for each subbasin (mean area 215 km2). Unit of measurement: mm. The precipitation is derived from the WFD gridded data set which consists of the ERA-40 reanalysis data set daily precipitation output (Weedon et al. 2011)corrected for wet days mean monthly precipitation and undercatch (for example to CRU and GPCC). For each subbasin, the gridpoint nearest the subbasin centroid is used. Within E-HYPE a correction is made to increase precipitation above 700 m elevation. Original data source was WFD Forcing data and HYDE was used for repurposing. The data format is a zipped text file. On the first row there is a brief description and the rest of the file contains one row per time step, with the sub basin id as each column header on the second row. The first item on each line is the time step using the format YYYY-MM-DD, so 1961-01-01 for the first of January 1961.