Spatial heterogeneity in rain-bearing winds, seasonality and rainfall variability in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone
Data sets
Winter Rainfall Zone 2019 station rainfall dataset https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.16453452.v1
GPCC Climatology Version 2018 at 0.25 degree: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation Climatology for Every Month and the Total Year from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historical Data https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/CLIM_M_V2018_025
Dwarsberg weather station (1214 m), event rainfall, 03/2013-09/2019 https://doi.org/10.15493/SAEON.FYNBOS.10000008
Full Data Monthly Version 2018.0 at 0.25 degree: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V2018_025
ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1979 to present https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47
Model code and software
Python code to analyse the association between rainfall data and synoptic wind direction https://doi.org/10.25375/UCT.16546008.V1
Rainfall quality control and gap-filling procedure using Generalised Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS) https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.18856337
xarray: v0.8.0 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.59499