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The dataset described in this paper is a collection of precipitation statistics calculated from the hourly nationwide German RADKLIM and RADOLAN QPEs provided by the German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)), which were combined with rainfall statistics derived from rain gauge data for intercomparison. Moreover, additional information on parameters that can potentially influence radar data quality, such as the height above sea level, information on wind energy plants and the distance to the next radar station, were included in the dataset. The resulting two point shapefiles are readable with all common GIS and constitutes a spatially highly resolved rainfall statistics geodataset for the period 2006 to 2017, which can be used for statistical rainfall analyses or for the derivation of model inputs. Furthermore, the publication of this data collection has the potential to benefit other users who intend to use precipitation data for any purpose in Germany and to identify the rainfall dataset that is best suited for their application by a straightforward comparison of three rainfall datasets without any tedious data processing and georeferencing.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/data4030118","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,2]],"date-time":"2019-08-02T11:58:16Z","timestamp":1564747096000},"page":"118","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["A Rainfall Data Intercomparison Dataset of RADKLIM, RADOLAN, and Rain Gauge Data for Germany"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Jennifer","family":"Kreklow","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Leibniz Universit\u00e4t Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany"}]},{"given":"Bj\u00f6rn","family":"Tetzlaff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Bio- and Geosciences IBG-3, Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich GmbH, 52425 J\u00fclich, Germany"}]},{"given":"Gerald","family":"Kuhnt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Leibniz Universit\u00e4t Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany"}]},{"given":"Benjamin","family":"Burkhard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Leibniz Universit\u00e4t Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany"},{"name":"Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF, Eberswalder Stra\u00dfe 84, 15374 M\u00fcncheberg, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1359","DOI":"10.5194\/hess-21-1359-2017","article-title":"Weather radar rainfall data in urban hydrology","volume":"21","author":"Thorndahl","year":"2017","journal-title":"Hydrol. 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