Observed Annual Maximum Sub-Daily Precipitation from the Belgian Hydro-Meteorological Network (1967-2004) and Uccle (1898-2007)

We present annual maximum precipitation data from 10-min pluviograph stations of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. This includes the 110-year time series (1898-2007) of Uccle, Brussels (Demarée, 2003), and 17 other pluviograph series, but for a much shorter period (1967-2004). Some of these series display long periods with missing data, whereas the Uccle series is complete. All the series were recorded with a Hellmann-Fuess pluviograph. We constructed annual maximum d-hourly precipitation for rainfall durations d = 10min, 20min, 30min, 1h, 2h, 3h, 6h, 12h, 24h, 48h, and 72h. The annual maximum data was analysed in Vannitsem & Naveau (2007), Van de Vyver (2012; 2015a,b; 2018), and in Van de Vyver et al. (2021). The files include: "AM.PP.BELGIUM.RData": for each of the 18 stations, the annual maximum rainfall depths (mm) are listed in a matrix (rows: year, columns: rainfall duration). The data is also accompanied by the geographic coordinates (longitude/latitude/altitude). "MAP.STATIONS.pdf": elevation map (m) of Belgium, together with the location of the 10-min pluviograph stations. "INFO.STATIONS.pdf": table with the geographic coordinates (longitude/latitude/altitude). References Demarée, G. R., 2003: Le pluviographe centenaire du plateau d'Uccle: son histoire, ses données et ses applications. La Houille Blanche, 4, 1-8. Vannitsem, S., and P. Naveau, 2007: Spatial dependences among precipitation maxima over Belgium. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 14 (5), 621-630, doi:10.5194/npg-14-621-2007. Van de Vyver, H., 2012: Spatial regression models for extreme precipitation in Belgium. Water Resour. Res., 48 (9), W09549, doi:10.1029/2011WR011707. Van de Vyver, H., 2015a: On the estimation of continuous 24-h precipitation maxima. Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk. Assess., 29 (3), 653-663, doi:10.1007/s00477-014-0912-5. Van de Vyver, H., 2015b: Bayesian estimation of rainfall intensity-duration-frequency relationships. J. Hydrol., 529 (3), 1451-1463, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.08.036. Van de Vyver, H., 2018: A multiscaling-based intensity-duration-frequency model for extreme precipitation. Hydrol. Process., 32 (11), 1635-1647, doi:10.1002/hyp.11516. Van de Vyver, H., B. Van Schaeybroeck, R. De Troch, L. De Cruz, R. Hamdi, C. Villanueva-Birriel, P. Marbaix, J.-P. van Ypersele, H. Wouters, S. Vanden Broucke, N.P.M. van Lipzig, S. Doutreloup, C. Wyard, C. Scholzen, X. Fettweis, S. Caluwaerts and P. Termonia, 2021: Evaluation framework for sub-daily rainfall extremes simulated by regional climate models. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 60 (10), 1423-1442, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0004.1.