Dynamic assessment of rainfall erosivity in Europe: evaluation of EURADCLIM ground-radar data

Matthews, Francis; Borrelli, Pasquale; Panagos, Panos; Bezak, Nejc

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5299-2025

Articles | Volume 29, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5299-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5299-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 29, issue 20

Research article

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20 Oct 2025

Research article |

| 20 Oct 2025

Dynamic assessment of rainfall erosivity in Europe: evaluation of EURADCLIM ground-radar data

Francis Matthews, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, and Nejc Bezak

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5299-2025-supplement

Data sets

EURADCLIM: The European climatological gauge-adjusted radar precipitation dataset (1-h accumulations) KNMI Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut https://doi.org/10.21944/ymrk-mr24

Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa) European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/gloreda

Short summary

Rainfall erosivity is the main driver of water-induced soil erosion. A ground radar-based data was used to prepare a rainfall erosivity map of Europe. This study shows that the radar-based data products are a valuable solution for estimating large-scale rainfall erosivity, especially in regions with limited station-based precipitation data. A rainfall erosivity ensemble was derived to give first insights into a future avenue for updatable pan-European rainfall erosivity predictions.