New Austrian climate maps for 1971-2000

New Austrian climate maps for 1971-2000

Climate being in constant flux, availability of higher resolved digital elevation models and further development of gridding methods gave reasons for updating the most frequently used climate maps for Austria from 1961–1990 to 1971–2000. To achieve a station density as high as possible, data from eleven national and foreign institutes were collected and gaps filled. According to the climate parameter, different geostatistical interpolation methods (including regionalised global multilinear regressions, geographically weighted regressions and curve fitting to other parameter) were applied.

The resulting 19 grids concern temperature, precipitation, snow and sunshine parameters. The map images can be obtained via the ZAMG-website. For scientific and planning purposes, the digital grids can be requested by e-mail.

Johann Hiebl, Department for Climate Research, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics 

http://www.zamg.ac.at/forschung/klimatologie/klimamodellierung/oeklim2
http://www.zamg.ac.at/produkte/thema/klimainformation/klimakarten