KNMI Rain Yearbooks 1932-1990 (digital scans)
This dataset contains digital scans of the KNMI rain yearbooks covering the period 1932–1990. The yearbooks include daily precipitation observations collected by the so-called volunteer network. Within this network, the amount of precipitation over the past 24 hours is measured daily at 08:00 UTC. Before 1932, these daily observations (or a subset thereof) were included in the Meteorological Yearbooks of the KNMI. Observers recorded their measurements on a special form, which was sent by post to the KNMI each month. There, the data were quality-checked and processed into meteorological and climatological products. Since 1990, observations have been submitted digitally on a daily basis and stored directly in a database. All validated precipitation observations from KNMI dating back to 1850 are available through the KNMI Data Platform (KDP) or the KNMI website.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-08-21
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::yearbook-daily-rainfall/1.0/
- Purpose
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Scanned to keep historical data available in the future.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Precipitation
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Observations
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Yearbook
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Historic
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Digital scans
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Archive
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- Use limitation
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no use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1932-01-01
- End date
- 1990-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/0
- Distribution format
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Name Version JPEG
1.0
ZIP
1.0
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=yearbook-daily-rainfall&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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KNMI hardcopy archive (Centraal Registratie Archief Waarnemingen, CRAW)
Metadata
- File identifier
- 236b4450-7e71-11f0-b6f5-3ac53960df03 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-07-17T11:24:36.250492Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
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