A data base of contributions of major oceanic and terrestrial moisture sources on continental daily extreme precipitation
Marta Vázquez,
Raquel Nieto,
Margarida L.R. Liberato,
Luis Gimeno
Affiliations
Marta Vázquez
Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), CIM-UVIGO, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain; Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal; Corresponding author at: Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), CIM-UVIGO, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Raquel Nieto
Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), CIM-UVIGO, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Margarida L.R. Liberato
Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Luis Gimeno
Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), CIM-UVIGO, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Most of the moisture transported in the globe has its origin in the well-known main moisture sources defined by Gimeno et al. [1]. They provide moisture for precipitation over continental areas in the world in different proportions. This paper presents the daily moisture contribution over each 0.5 × 0.5 continental gridded point from the three preferred moisture sources (primary, secondary, and tertiary) for continental extreme precipitation during the Peak Precipitation Month. The data consist of the moisture contribution (|E−P<0|) field by month from the three preferred sources obtained using an approach based on the Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART. The data here presented is directly related to the results presented in Vazquez et al. [2].
