Maximum Consecutive Five-Day Precipitation

The Maximum Consecutive Five-Day Precipitation index is relevant to agriculture, water management, transport and the urban sector. This Index is based on daily precipitation and is part of the Extreme Precipitation Hazard type of the Wet and Dry category of the classification.

The index gives the maximum precipitation amount that occurred over 5 consecutive days in a given period.

A higher/lower value indicates more/less extreme precipitations.

Definition

Maximum five days cumulated precipitation (mm).

In weather and climate models total precipitation is the flux of water equivalent (rain or snow) reaching the land surface (expressed as kg.m-2.sec-2 and converted to mm/day). Precipitation is usually presented as annual, seasonal or monthly cumulated values over the considered period but extremes are cumulated on shorter periods (eg daily, 3-Day, or 5-days maximums).

Data Sources

The data was assembled on behalf of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) based on climate projections hosted on the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS). The Index is calculated from a set of nine bias-corrected multi-model simulations from the EURO-CORDEX experiment. These simulations have a spatial resolution of 0.25° x 0.25°, a 3-hourly output, and cover scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. More information about the dataset can be found in the corresponding CDS documentation resources.

Supporting Information

Further information about this application can be found in the Product User Guide (PUG) of the application in the documentation resources of the CDS.

Related information can also be found on other sections of the EEA site:

• The Index based interactive EEA report: Wet and dry - Heavy precipitation and river floods (link).

Data download

The aggregated data shown on the map can be downloaded as csv files.