Meteorological variables for Agriculture: a Dataset for the Italian Area (MADIA)

The dataset is the supplementary material for the following journal paper:

Parisse Barbara*, Alilla Roberta, Pepe Antonio Gerardo, De Natale Flora

MADIA - Meteorological variables for Agriculture: a Dataset for the Italian Area

(Submitted to Elsevier Data in Brief)

Abstract

The MADIA gridded dataset provides the series of the main agro-meteorological variables derived from ERA5 hourly surface data, across the Italian domain for the period 1981-2021, and their respective 1981-2010 and 1991-2020 climate normals. Temporal and spatial resolutions are 10-daily and 0.25 degrees respectively. The dataset contains time series of minimum, average and maximum air temperature, minimum and maximum air relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation, precipitation and reference evapotranspiration according to the FAO Penman-Monteith method. The dataset is provided in both NetCDF and csv format. In addition, discovery and description metadata are provided. In order to facilitate the data reuse for computing statistics at Italian NUTS 2 and 3 levels, a complementary vector file is provided which reports the cell weight in terms of fraction covered of each administrative unit considered. The MADIA dataset will be periodically updated.

Attached content

A ZIP archive composed by the following folders

1. nc_data: annual time series from 1981 to 2021 and climate normals (1981-2010 and 1991-2020) in NetCDF format
2. csv_data: annual time series from 1981 to 2021 and climate normals (1981-2010 and 1991-2020) in csv format
3. metadata: discovery and description metadata 
4. shp_data: complementary vector data with the NUTS2-3 cover fractions 

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (AgriDigit-Agromodelli, DM n. 36502 of 20/12/2018)