IWRA Proceedings

AbstractPrevious studies of precipitation in the Faroe Islands mostly exists in “grey literature” such as Førland in 1986. This study concluded that the variation in precipitation is quite extreme even over limited distances. Here it was also stated, that if expansion of hydropower is a plan, more advanced rain measurements must be introduced. This was done in a report by Davidsen et al in 1994, that presented a rain map for the Faroe Islands with a linear dependency between topography and precipitation. Generally, one can say that the rain climate in the Faroe Islands is similar to the West coast of Scotland and the West coast of Norway. The Faroe Island has lower summer temperature and a greater number of days with precipitation in winter than the other two location. For this reason, our Islands need dedicated local studies.