A convection-permitting hindcast based on the MOLOCH model and driven by ERA5: hourly precipitation data for years 1994 and 2011 (sample data)

Hourly estimates of rainfall accumulations were produced within the framework of the SPITBRAN Special project, which received computational resources from ECMWF (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/special-projects/spitbran-2018). Numerical gridded data at 2.5 km grid spacing were obtained with the MOLOCH model set in a convection-permitting mode and fed by ERA5 data as initial and boundary conditions for the period 1979-2019 and over the Italian domain. Hourly rainfall accumulations of such long-term hindcast are provided for the years 1994 and 2011. File format is Grib2.