Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a typical high mountain area that prone to destructive rainstorm hazards and inducing natural disasters, underscoring the importance of developing intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves for estimating extreme precipitation characteristics. Here we introduce the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves (QTPPIDFC) dataset, the first gridded dataset tailored for estimating extreme precipitation characteristics in QTP. The QTPPIDFC dataset is generated through rincipal component analysis and regression modelling based on precipitation observation of 203 weather stations. The dataset provides precipitation information within 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 24 hours and 5, 10, 20, 50,100 return years, with a 1/30° spatial resolution. This QTPPIDFC dataset can solidly serve for hydrometeorological-related risk management and hydraulic/hydrologic engineering design in QTP.
Sang, Y. (2024). The QTPPIDFC: a gridded (1/30°) dataset for estimating precipitation intensity-duration-frequency curves across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. National Tibetan Plateau / Third Pole Environment Data Center. https://doi.org/10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.301308. https://cstr.cn/18406.11.Atmos.tpdc.301308.
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