The database is updated until: Dec 31, 2018.

May 2018 - New temperature series from 211 stations included for Lombardia (Italy), kindly provided by the ARPA Lombardia.

April 2018 - State of the European climate report for March 2018 has been released as part of the Copernicus service C3S_311a_Lot4.

April 2018 - All series from Germany (kindly provided by National Climate Data Center (DWD)) have been re-included due to a change in data delivery. Series can be changed and new series and stations have been added.

April 2018 - Updates for 2016 have been included for the UK (kindly provided by National Climate Information Centre).

April 2018 - Updates until the end of 2017 have been included for Spain kindly provided by Aemet.

April 2018 - E-OBS v17.0 has been released.

March 2018 - Updates for July - December 2017 kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

March 2018 - Updates until the end of 2015 of 24 stations for Cloud Cover and of 27 stations for daily maximum windgust are kindly provided by the Estonian Environmental Agency.

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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 69 participants for 63 countries and the ECA dataset contains 54091 series of observations for 12 elements at 15561 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary). 81% of these daily series can be downloaded from this website for non-commercial research and education and ECA&D and the gridded dataset E-OBS enjoy widespread use in Europe. 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 17.0 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 2017-12-31. It has originally been developed and updated as parts of the ENSEMBLES (EU-FP6) and EURO4M (EU-FP7) projects. Currently it is maintained and elaborated as part of the UERRA project (EU-FP7).

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

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

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

MEDARE Initiative   ETH   JRC   SMHI  

ECA&D Project Team
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