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.

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Reference: Capecchi et al. "A convection-permitting and limited-area model hindcast driven by ERA5 data: precipitation performances in Italy." Clim Dyn (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06633-2