Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Climatology in the USA Data sources (see references): NEXRAD level III data, hourly precipitation; IBtracs best track data; University of Colorado extended best track data Available as NetCDF files and Matlab structure Classification as TC precipitation criteria: within radius of outermost closed isobar of a TC at a given time Scope: 100km radius around corresponding radar station Dealing with radar outages: up to 2h gap - interpolation of precipitation, larger gaps - rescaling of frequency with fraction of available data (see formulas) Available variables per radar station: Location: name [ ], coordinates [°N, °W] Grid: lat [°N], lon [°E] Frequency rescaling: re_freq [ ] Available variables per event: Storm identifiers: name [ ], year [a] Storm total precipitation Area distribution: Ptot [kg/m2], gridded (0.1x0.1°) Area average: Ptot_av [kg/m2] Area maximum within 0.5x0.5°: Ptot_max [kg/m2] Annual exceedance frequency: f(Ptot_max) [a^-1] Relevant formulas: re_freq = total duration of storm exposure / duration of viable measurements f (Ptot_max) = (number of events exceeding Ptot_max / length of observation) * re_freq Matlab structure: Level 1: TCP_climatology Level 2: station variables -> station_event_data leads to event variables Level 3: event variables -> Ptot leads to spatially gridded precipitation Level 4: Ptot-grid

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