Hungary - Budapest city extreme rainfall event set - Imperial College London

A realistic 100 year time series of high temporal resolution (five minute) rainfall for the city of Budapest, for assessment of the risk of flash flooding. Flash floods are caused by large amounts of rain falling in short periods of time on the scale of minutes and hours, rather than days. A Bartlett-Lewis rectangular pulse model was trained on observed rain gauge data provided by the Budapest Sewage Works Ltd. Due to the seasonal cycle in the type of precipitation observed in Budapest, the data has been partitioned into four seasons of three months and the model was fitted independently to each season. The data are 5-minute totals in units of millimetres beginning at 00:00 1st Jan of an arbitrary year.