10-minute sum of station observations of sunshine duration in hours for Germany

These data come from DWD stations and legally and qualitatively equivalent partner stations operated for climatological and climate related applications. Extensive station metadata (station relocations, instrument changes, change of reference time, changes in algorithms) are provided with the download via the CDC portal.


The measurements are assigned to a timestamp in UTC which marks the end of the 10-minute interval. As of 1.1.2000 the time stamp is given in UTC, for the period before that in CET.

Simple

Alternate title

urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::OBS_DEU_PT10M_SD
Date (Publication)
2022-03-10
Date (Revision)
2024-03-29
Edition

v24.03
Edition date
2024
Citation identifier
urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::OBS_DEU_PT10M_SD

CDC2.1:WMO-URN CDC2.1:WMO-URN 2021

Citation identifier
52646963880

CDC2.1:DWH.PRODUCT_ID CDC2.1:DWH.PRODUCT_ID 2018

Citation identifier
urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::VGSL_SD_10_MN320

CDC2.0:WMO-URN CDC2.0:WMO-URN 2018

Distributor
  Deutscher Wetterdienst - RTH ( RTH FOCAL POINT )
Frankfurter Straße 135 , Offenbach , 63067 , Germany
+49 (0) 69 8062-2546
+49 (0) 69 8062-4162
www.dwd.de
Presentation form
Digital map
Presentation form
Digital table
Status
On going
Point of contact
  Deutscher Wetterdienst - CDC - Vertrieb Klima und Umwelt
Frankfurter Strasse 135 , Offenbach , Hessen , 63067 , Deutschland
+ 49 (0) 69 8062-4400
+ 49 (0) 69 8062-4499
https://dwd.de
Hours of service

09:00 - 16:00
Maintenance and update frequency
täglich
Update scope
Dataset

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - mapsLayerPath

  • climate/observations/germany/pt10m

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Parameter

  • sunshine duration

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Parameterklasse

  • radiation and sunshine duration

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Einheit

  • hours

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Zeitliche Auflösung

  • 10 minutes

Aktualisierungsfrequenz

  • daily

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Atmospheric conditions

  • Meteorological geographical features

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Datenherkunft

  • station data

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Geographische Region

  • Germany

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Geoserver Dimension: Zeit

DWD Climate Data Center Vocabulary - Statistische Bearbeitung

  • 10-minute sum
Keywords

  • opendata
High-value dataset categories
Specific usage

Data sets with quality level QN=1 may contain significant errors. Users have to decide whether for their particular application the more error prone 10-minute data should be used or rather the higher quality data (hourly or daily values). When investigating long term changes or trends, consider the station specific metadata.
User determined limitations
considerations
Specific usage

The stations in the DWD monitoring networks are set up and operated according to WMO regulations.

Stations in the equivalent partner networks may deviate from WMO regulations.

Depending on the application, local, regional and influences changing with time should be considered, which can be location- and parameter specific.

Sources of long-term uncertainty are:

- changes in station height when station was re-located

- changes in instrumentation

- varying quality control procedures (Behrendt et al., 2011)

- errors during data transfer or errors in the software

- change of observing personnel

- and others (Freydank, 2014)
User determined limitations
uncertainties
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no Limitations
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
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Other constraints
The Creative Commons BY 4.0 - Licence 'CC BY 4.0' apply.
Spatial representation type
Vector
Language
Deutsch
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Geographic identifier
Germany
Begin date
2020-01-01
Supplemental Information

For the most recent data the quality control is not completed yet. There are still issues to be discovered in the historical data. We welcome any hints to improve the data basis (see contact).
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4326
Geometric object type
Point
Geometric object count
312
Distribution format
  • OGC Services and OpenData files (free access) ()

Distributor
  Deutscher Wetterdienst - Climate Data Center (CDC) ( CDC - Vertrieb Klima und Umwelt )
Frankfurter Straße 135 , Offenbach , 63067 , Germany
+ 49 (0) 69 8062-4400
+ 49 (0) 69 8062-4499
www.dwd.de
OnLine resource
OGC:WFS:GetCapabilities/OBS_DEU_PT10M_SD ( OGC:WFS )
OnLine resource
OGC:WMS:GetCapabilities/OBS_DEU_PT10M_SD ( OGC:WMS )
OnLine resource
Behrendt, J., et al.: Beschreibung der Datenbasis des NKDZ. Version 3.5, Offenbach, 15.02.2011. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Kaspar, F., et al.: Monitoring of climate change in Germany – data, products and services of Germany`s National Climate Data Centre. Adv. Sci. Res., 10, doi:10.5194/asr-10-99-2013, 99–106, 2013. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Spengler, R.: The new Quality Control- and Monitoring System of the Deutscher Wetterdienst. Proceedings of the WMO Technical Conference on Meteorological and Environmental Instruments and Methods of Observation, Bratislava, 2002. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Long, C. and Dutton, E.: BSRN Global Network recommended QC tests, V2.0, Tech. rep., available as PDF at: http://www.bsrn.awi.de, 2002. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
DWD Vorschriften und Betriebsunterlagen Nr. 3 (VuB 3), Technikerhandbuch (THB) für Wettermeldestellen des synoptisch-klimatologischen Mess- und Beobachtungsnetzes, März 2014b. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
DWD Vorschriften und Betriebsunterlagen Nr. 3 (VuB 3), Beobachterhandbuch (BHB) für Wettermeldestellen des synoptisch-klimatologischen Mess- und Beobachtungsnetzes, März 2014a. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Becker, R. and Behrens, K.: Quality assessment of heterogeneous surface radiation network data, Adv. Sci. Res., 8, 93-97, doi:10.5194/asr-8-93-2012, 2012. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
DWD Vorschriften und Betriebsunterlagen Nr. 2 (VuB 2), Wetterschlüsselhandbuch Band D, Nov 2013. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Pass
Yes

Conceptual consistency

Name of measure
quality_estimation

Conformance result

Explanation

Procedures of quality assurance are explained in Kaspar et al., 2013: several steps of quality control, automated quality control based on the software QualiMET (see Spengler, 2002) for completeness, temporal and spatial consistency, and against statistical thresholds have been applied from 2003 onwards. Corrections in the high resolution recordings are routinely passed on to aggregated values (i.e., the hourly and daily values). Some doubtful values might still exist, especially in data before 2009. No homogenization has been carried out.
Pass
Yes

Conceptual consistency

Name of measure
quality_level
Measure description

The QUALITAETS_NIVEAU (QN) shows the quality control procedure applied for a data report (of several parameters) for a certain reporting time.


Data before and including 1980 can reach as best quality check level QN=5. Data after 1980 can reach QN=10 as best quality check level.

Conformance result

Explanation

QN = 1 : only formal control;

QN = 2 : controlled with individually defined criteria;

QN = 3 : automatic control and correction;

QN = 5 : historic, subjective procedures;

QN = 7 : second control done, before correction;

QN = 8 : quality control outside ROUTINE;

QN = 9 : not all parameters corrected;

QN = 10 : quality control finished, all corrections finished.
Pass
Yes

Conceptual consistency

Name of measure
quality_byte
Measure description

The QUALITAETS_BYTE (QB) denotes whether the value was objected to and/or corrected.

Conformance result

Explanation

QB = 0 : denotes not flagged,

QB = 1 : had no objections (either checked and not objected, or not checked and not objected, this can be interpreted only when considering QN);

QB = 2 : corrected;

QB = 3 : confirmed with objection rejected;

QB = 4 : added or calculated;

QB = 5 : objected;

QB = 6 : only formally checked;

QB = 7 : formal objection;

QB = -999 : quality flag does not exist.
Pass
Yes
Statement

These data are from the station networks of Deutschen Wetterdienst. For details the measurement procedures VuB 3 Beobachterhandbuch (DWD, 2014a), VuB 3 Technikerhandbuch (DWD, 2014b) and VuB 2 Wetterschlüsselhandbuch (DWD, 2013).
File identifier
urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::OBS_DEU_PT10M_SD XML
Metadata language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-07-12T06:05:00
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-2 Geographic information Metadata Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
Metadata standard version

ISO 19115-2:2009-02-15
Point of contact
  Deutscher Wetterdienst - CDC - Vertrieb Klima und Umwelt
Frankfurter Strasse 135 , Offenbach , Hessen , 63067 , Deutschland
+ 49 (0) 69 8062-4400
+ 49 (0) 69 8062-4499
https://dwd.de
Hours of service

09:00 - 16:00
Dataset URI

urn:x-wmo:md:de.dwd.cdc::OBS_DEU_PT10M_SD
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Atmospheric conditions Meteorological geographical features

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