The database is updated until: Mar 31, 2021.

March 2021 - E-OBSv23.1e has been released, covering the period 1 Jan 1950 - 31 Dec 2020. Relative humidity has been added for 1 Jan 1980 - 31 Dec 2020.

March 2021 - Updates for station Lisboa Geofisica until March 2020 have been included, kindly provided by the Instituto Dom Luiz

March 2021 - Updates for UK for 2019 have been included (kindly provided by National Climate Information Centre)

December 2020 - E-OBS v22.0e has been released

November 2020 - Updates until the end of 2019 have been included for the Ukraine, kindly provided by the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center.

October 2020 - Updates until September 2020 have been included for Romania, kindly provided by the Romanian National Meteorological Administration.

August 2020 - Updates have been included until the end of 2019 for stations in Calabria, Italy, kindly provided by the ARPA Calabria.

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ECA&D forms the backbone of the climate data node in the Regional Climate Centre (RCC) for WMO Region VI (Europe and the Middle East) since 2010. The data and information products contribute to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).

Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 79 participants for 66 countries and the ECA dataset contains 74209 series of observations for 13 elements at 20120 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary). 76% of these daily series can be downloaded from this website for non-commercial research and education. Participation to ECA&D is open to anyone maintaining daily station data. If you want to join please contact us. See our data policy for more details.

E-OBS version 22.0e has been released. E-OBS is a daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation, temperature and sea level pressure in Europe based on ECA&D information. The full dataset covers the period 1950-01-01 until 2020-06-30. It has originally been developed and updated as parts of the ENSEMBLES (EU-FP6), EURO4M (EU-FP7) and UERRA (EU-FP7) projects. Currently it is maintained and elaborated as part of the Copernicus Climate Change Services.

ECA&D has close links with the projects and initiatives below.

EUSTACE   INDECIS   Copernicus/C3S   Meteoalarm   International Surface Temperature Initiative   UERRA   EURO4M   ENSEMBLES   MILLENNIUM   ACRE   ETCCDI   EEA   AOPC   EUPORIAS   CHARMe  

Joint research projects exist between ECA&D and the following institutes or initiatives

MEDARE Initiative   ETH   JRC   SMHI  

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