A gridded 30-Day dataset of convective precipitation from radar and WRF simulations with 5 microphysics schemes

This dataset contains 30 days of model and radar data of convective precipitation over the Munich area gridded to the same Cartesian grid with 400 m horizontal grid spacing. A key feature of this data set is easy statistical comparison of simulated convective precipitation with polarimetric radar observations. The original model data is based on Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulations with 5 different microphysics schemes. This facilitates the evaluation of the impact of the cloud microphysics schemes on the prediction of convective precipitation. Synthetic polarimetric radar signals were created by employing the radar forward operator CR-SIM. The observational dataset is based on C-band polarimetric radar data. For fair comparison, the model and radar data were gridded to the same Cartesian grid by taking beam propagation effects into account.

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