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March 2024

E-OBSv29.0e has been released

February 2024

New stations and series are included from Hungary

February 2024

Updates of temperature and precipitation for 30 existing stations and 55 new stations kindly received by the Ukrainian State Committee of Hydrometeorology

January 2024

Updated series of global radiation data for the European network kindly provided by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

November 2023

Updates of 83 stations with temperature and precipitation data kindly received by the Ukrainian State Committee of Hydrometeorology

November 2023

Updates for 43 stations kindly received from the Portugese Instituto de Meteorologia IPMA

November 2023

Updates of 27 Romanian stations kindly received from MeteoRomania.

October 2023

E-OBSv28.0e released

October 2023

Updates for temperature and precipttaion for Italian stations have been kindly provided by the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA).

June 2023

Updates of station Prilep in North Macedonia have been kindly received by the National Hydrometeorological Institute in Skopje.

April 2023

E-OBSv27.0e has been released

April 2023

Updates for all stations in Valle d'Aosta (Italy) until the end of 2022 have been kindly provided by ARPA Valle d'Aosta

March 2023

We are organizing two E-OBS splinter meetings at the EGU 2023 in Vienna on Wednesday 26 April at 16:15-18:00h and Thursday 27 April at 14:00-15:45h. Feel free to join us!
The aim of these splinter meetings is to have a conversation with users and learn about issues and wishes of the user community.

January 2023

Updates of wind data (daily mean wind speed, daily max. wind gust and prevailing wind direction) have been kindly provided by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia.

December 2022

Updates for all stations in Calabria (Italy) for 2021 have been kindly provided by ARPA Calabria.

November 2022

Update of all Catalan records for the first half of 2022 have been kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

November 2022

Update of all Croatian records for 2021 have been kindly provided by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia.

October 2022

E-OBSv26.0e has been released

June 2022

Updates of the historical records for all synoptic and climatological stations in Poland have been kindly provided by the Polish meteorological service IMGW-PIB.

June 2022

Following developments in the United Nations, Turkey's name is changed to Türkiye

April 2022

E-OBSv25.0e has been released

March 2022

All series provided by the Latvian meteorological service are now flagged as downloadable from ECA&D

January 2022

Following a change in data policy, the Austrian National Meteorologican Service ZAMG has made the complete network of meteorological stations available.

December 2021

Updates for all stations in Calabria (Italy) have been kindly provided by ARPA Calabria

December 2021

Updates of Croatian stations for 2020 have beeen kindly provided by the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service

November 2021

E-OBSv24.0e has been released.

August 2021

New stations and precipitation series have been included for the UK

August 2021

Inserted new station and updates for January - June 2021, kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia

August 2021

New German stations have been included, kindly provided by DWD

June 2021

Included 2011-2020 for 6 Austrian stations for temperature, precipitation and sunshine duration. Kindly provided by ZAMG.

June 2021

Updates for nine Slovakian stations have been kindly provided by the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

June 2021

Updates for 2020 have been included for Denmark and Greenland (kindly provided by DMI).

June 2021

Updates for 32 stations in Latvia have been kindly provided by the Latvian Environmental, Geological and Meteorological Agency

May 2021

Series for France have been updated for 2020 (kindly provided by Météo-France).

May 2021

Updates for the stations in Croatia have been kindly provided by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia

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)

January 2021

Updates for July - December 2020 are kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia

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.

August 2020

Updates for 2019 have been included for Denmark and Greenland (kindly provided by DMI).

August 2020

New stations and updates have been included for France (kindly provided by Météo-France).

May 2020

E-OBSv21.0e has been released.

March 2020

This website has seen a technical upgrade. If you notice that something is not working, please let us know

February 2020

Monthly updates of global radiation for six stations are now kindly provided by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.

February 2020

Updates for July - December 2019 are kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

December 2019

New station data have been kindly provided by The National Environmental Agency from Georgia. These are 209 station records for daily temperature, precipitation and a subset provides humidity, pressure and wind information.

December 2019

Global radiation record from 1928 onward has been added for the station Haarweg/Veenkampen (the Netherlands), kindly provided by the Wageningen University & Research centre.

October 2019

E-OBS v20.0e has been released. Global radiation grids have been added as a new variable.

October 2019

Global radiatiaon has been added.

October 2019

Precipitation and temperature records of eight stations in the Czech Republic, with data starting as early as January 1920, are kindly provided by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.

August 2019

Four historic rain gauge records for the Netherlands with data from 1849 until the 1950s added, kindly provided by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

July 2019

Updates for 2015-2018 are kindly provided by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia.

July 2019

Updates for January - June 2019 are kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

July 2019

Global radiation data has been included for Slovenia

July 2019

Precipitation and temperature data from 36 stations in Russia have been included for 2014-2017, kindly provided by Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring.

July 2019

Precipitation and temperature data from Emilia Romagna (Italy), downloaded from the Arpae database has been added. Years 2006 till 2019 (may) ARPAE Emilia-Romagna.

July 2019

Updates of sunshine duration, temperature and precipitation data kindly provided by the Radcliffe Meteorological Station Oxford.

July 2019

Relative humidity data have been included until the end of 2018 for all Estonian stations kindly provided by the Estonian Environment Agency.

July 2019

Rain gauge data for 59 stations and temperature data for 7 stations covering a part of the 1920s has been kindly provided by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.

July 2019

Updates of five series for sunshine duration kindly provided by the Hungarian Meteorological Service.

July 2019

Early temperature and rainfall records for 39 stations have been kindly provided by the UK Met OfficeNational Climate Information Centre.

July 2019

Global radiation data from 1980 onwards has been kindly provided by MeteoSwiss.

June 2019

The very long radiation and sunshine duration records measured at Stockholm, Sweden, which started in 1922 and continuing to today, has been kindly provided by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.

May 2019

Updates have been included until the end of 2018 for stations in Calabria, Italy, kindly provided by the ARPA Calabria.

May 2019

Rescued data for series starting as early as 1867 has been kindly provided by the Met Eireann. These are records for Dublin Phoenix Park (temperature, precipitation, sunshine duration and pressure) and precipitation records for Blacksod point, Malin head and Roches point.

May 2019

New station data has been kindly provided by the ARPA Calabria. These are 72 station records for daily temperature and 79 for daily precipitation.

May 2019

New station data has been kindly provided by the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). These are 122 station records for daily minimum temperature, 90 for daily maximum temperature and 492 for daily precipitation.

April 2019

Updates have been included until the end of 2018 for all Estonian stations kindly provided by the Estonian Environment Agency.

April 2019

Updates have been included until the end of 2018 for the Hungarian stations Szombathely, Budapest, Pecs, Szeged and Debrecen kindly provided by the Hungarian Meteorological Service.

March 2019

E-OBS v19.0e has been released.

March 2019

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

March 2019

Updates for 2017 have been included for the UK (kindly provided by National Climate Information Centre).

March 2019

New data for Italy (254 stations) kindly provided by Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) .

March 2019

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

January 2019

Updates of the Serbian stations are kindly provided by Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia.

December 2018

Sunshine duration data updated from 1947 onward for Luxembourg Airport, kindly provided by MeteoLux.

December 2018

Precipitation data from 158 rain gauges from Sardinia are added, kindly provided by the ARPA Sardegna.

November 2018

Global radiation data from 441 European station are added, kindly provided by the World Radiation Data Centre.

October 2018

Updates of 27 stations for Snow Depth and updates of 9 stations for Temperature are kindly provided by the Estonian Environmental Agency.

August 2018

Updates for January - June 2018 kindly provided by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

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

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

April 2018

Updates until the end of 2018 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.

February 2018

Series for sea level pressure, relative humidity and wind speed have been included for France (kindly provided by Météo-France).

February 2018

Use statistics of the ECA&D webpages and E-OBS are now available.

January 2018

Due to a bug, part of the temperature and precipitation series for Sweden were not included. This has been corrected.

January 2018

Updates until the end of 2016 of 23 stations are kindly provided by the Romanian National Meteorological Administration.

November 2017

Updates until the end of 2016 of 33 stations are kindly provided by the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW). Following the changes in the data policy of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, their provided series now have the status "downloadable".

November 2017

Updates until the end of 2015 of 7 stations for Cloud Cover are kindly provided by the Estonian Environmental Agency.

October 2017

Updates until the end of 2016 of 18 new stations are kindly provided by the Israel Meteorological Service.

October 2017

Updates until the end of 2016 and three new stations are kindly provided by the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

September 2017

E-OBS version 16.0 has been released.

August 2017

Following the changes in the data policy of the UK National Climate Data Centre, their provided series now have the status "downloadable".

August 2017

New MSLP data until the end of 2015 have been included for Estonia kindly provided by the Estonian Environmental Agency.

August 2017

Updates for January - June 2017 received from Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

June 2017

E-OBS version 15.0 has been released.

May 2017

Temperature and precipitation updates for 2016 have been included for France (kindly provided by Météo-France).

May 2017

Updates for 2015 have been included for the UK (kindly provided by National Climate Information Centre).

April 2017

New wind direction data until 2015 have been included for Estonia kindly provided by the Estonian Environmental Agency.

April 2017

Updates for July - December 2016 received from Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

April 2017

The Spanish Meteorological Service Aemet has updated the historical records of their stations.

February 2017

The Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology of Montenegro IHMS has send historical data from 1949 onward for stations Podgorica and Pljevlja and now updates five stations each month.

January 2017

While the global annual mean air temperature is likely to reach its highest level in 2016 (based on a provisional report by the WMO, the annual mean air temperature anomaly across Europe for 2016 was not record-breaking but ranks 6th in the list of warmest years in the series since 1950. See the Climate Indicator Bulletin for details.

January 2017

Updates have been included for Hungary up to the end of 2015, kindly provided by the Hungarian Meteorological Service.

December 2016

Updates have been included for Israel including some data for the first half of the 20th century, kindly provided by the Israel Meteorological Service.

December 2016

Updates received of Lisboa Geofysica, kindly provided by the Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa.

November 2016

2 new stations have been included for Montenegro, kindly provided by the Institute of Hydrology and Seismology.

October 2016

E-OBS version 14.0 has been released.

October 2016

Updates for 2015 have been included for Estonia kindly provided by the Estonian Environmental Agency.

September 2016

Updates for 2014 have been included for Croatia, kindly provided by DMHZ (Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service)

September 2016

UK temperature series for 2013 and 2014 reincluded. TN and TX were swapped.

September 2016

Temperature series for the five main stations in The Netherlands replaced by homogenized versions (Technical report)).

September 2016

Updates for January - July 2016 received from Meteorological Service of Catalonia, including three new stations.

July 2016

Problems in some of the sea level pressure series for Croatia and Italy have been corrected and new E-OBS fields are calculated (only for sea level pressure). These are released as v13.1. The E-OBS temperature and precipitation have not been changed.

June 2016

Updates for 2014 have been included for the UK (kindly provided by National Climate Information Centre) and updates for 2015 for Denmark and Greenland (both kindly provided by DMI)

June 2016

Quality-checked and validated historical time series have been provided by MeteoLux for temperature and precipitation from 1947 onwards.

June 2016

Temperature and precipitation series for France have been removed and reincluded, together with some new stations (Météo-France).

June 2016

E-OBS version 13.0 has been released.

March 2016

The definition of the R75pTOT, R95pTOT and R99pTOT indices have been changed. These indices now produce the amount of precipitation (in mm) related to these heavy, severe and extreme precipitation days respectively, rather than the percentage of this precipitation amount with respect to the total precipitation amount. See the Indices dictionary for further details.

March 2016

Updates have been recieved from the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

February 2016

The Swedish series have been updated by SMHI and will be updated every month.

February 2016

The Danish time series have been updated and re-included with correct day shift and elements code after consultation with J. Cappelen from DMI.

February 2016

Updates of data until 2013/12/31 are recieved from the Meteorological Service of Cyprus.

February 2016

Twelve stations with temperature and precipitation have been shared by the North Portugal Ministry of Agriculture.

January 2016

Rescued series for stations Riva del Grada (max. and min. temperatures and cloud cover) from as early as 1874 and station Rovereto (cloud cover) from 1919 has been shared by Dr. Brugnara (University of Bern).

December 2015

Europe will have its second warmest year on record in 2015. See the Climate Indicator Bulletin on this year.

November 2015

The Spanish Meteorological Service Aemet now updates its stations each month.

November 2015

The Czech HydroMeteorological Institute CHMI has shared 65 new stations and updates these monthly.

October 2015

E-OBS version 12.0 has been released.

September 2015

Included about 25 older stations in the north of Norway from Met.No.

September 2015

Updates for 2015 until the end of June and revised series for snow depth from Northeast Spain included from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.

September 2015

Updates until 2010 and a few new series included from the Bulgarian National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology.

July 2015

Updates for 2013 and 15 new stations included from UK Met Office.

May 2015

New data from Northeast Spain inserted from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (79 AWSs).

April 2015

E-OBS version 11.0 has been released.

April 2015

Updates up to the end of 2014 inserted from the Meteorological Service of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

February 2015

Updates received from the Spanish Meteorological Services Aemet for all their stations up to the 2014/12/31.

February 2015

Updates received from Hellenic National Meteorological Service (Greece) for 13 stations (23 rain gauges) running up to 2004/12/31.

February 2015

Following changes in the data policy at the Deutscher WetterDienst (DWD), most series provided by DWD have the status "downloadable". Original data and metadata are provided at the DWD ftp site.

January 2015

The Portugese winery Sogrape Vinhos S.A. provided data for 20 stations and updates these monthly.

January 2015

Updates received from MeteoSwiss for 28 stations. MeteoSwiss now provide monthly updates of their data.

December 2014

Europe will have its warmest year on record in 2014. See the Climate Indicator Bulletin on this remarkable year.

November 2014

New data for cloud cover, humidity and pressure for Croatian stations added.

October 2014

New stations P11-B and F3-FB-1 (North Sea platforms) added.

September 2014

Updates for 2013 for Croatian stations inserted, including data for the new stations Ogulin and Dubrovnik.

September 2014

New station Voorschoten (NL) added.

August 2014

Series from Denmark and Greenland have been updated until 2013 by DMI.

July 2014

Data added from the Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX) for countries southeast of the Baltic Sea (2300 rain gauge series and 182 snow depth series).

July 2014

New data series added for 50 rain gauge station from the southern part of Tyrol (modern day Italy). Series roughly cover the period 1893-1913. Data and metadata digitized from records of Austrian Hydrologic Office and ZAMG by University of Bern.

May 2014

New data series for 5 Catalonian stations from Meteorological Service of Catalonia plus updated metadata.

April 2014

E-OBS version 10.0 has been released.

April 2014

New series for cloud cover, humidity and pressure for Croatian stations Varazdin and Zadar provided by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia.

March 2014

Updated Croatian series with data to the end of 2013 provided by the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia. Stations Knin, Varazdin and Zadar new additions.

March 2014

Updated Slovakian series with data to the end of 2013 provided by the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute.

March 2014

Updated UK series with 2012 data provided by the National Climate Information Centre in Exeter.

February 2014

Series of Sarajevo and Bjelasnica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) have been updated, new data included for Bihac, Tuzla, Mostar and Livno.

February 2014

Ukranian series updated to 2012/12/31.

December 2013

The hardware problems have been solved and the database is updated again. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

December 2013

32 new precipitation series from the Netherlands have been added.

October 2013

E-OBS version 9.0 has been released.

August 2013

Added help pages to all interactive maps on how to use and interpret them.

August 2013

The temperature series of 3 Bulgarian stations are included again (Sadovo, Obraszov Chiflik and Kneja). Negative values were included as positive.

August 2013

A description about the central European flooding in May/June 2013 has been added to the extreme events.

June 2013

Precipitation series for 8 Danish stations (sta_ids 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 115, 302 and 299) have been date-shifted backwards with one day before 2012-01-01 to preserve internal consistancy.

May 2013

Metadata for series from ARPA-SIMC (Bologna, Italy) has been updated and the series have been date-shifted backwards with one day to preserve internal consistency.

May 2013

Series from five stations in Hungary have been updated by the Hungarian Meteorological Service up to 2011/12/31.

May 2013

Series from Wageningen - De Veenkampen (NL) are made available by WUR with data from 2011/06.

April 2013

E-OBS version 8.0 has been released.

April 2013

Series from Denmark and Greenland have been updated by DMI with data from 2012.

March 2013

Link to SACA&D has been changed to the ICA&D umbrella concept in the blue bar above.

February 2013

Series from five stations in Hungary have been updated by the Hungarian Meteorological Service.

February 2013

Status of all Finnish series from FMI have been changed to downloadable.

January 2013

Increased station density in Russia (about 500 new stations).

December 2012

Terms “public”/“non-public” have been changed to “downloadable”/“non-downloadable” to avoid confusion with the Public Sector Information Directive of the EU.

December 2012

Page added with joint research projects.

December 2012

Increased station density in Mediterranean area (53 new stations).

December 2012

Increased station density in Greenland (77 new stations).

November 2012

Bug fixed which resulted in no QC flags in some non-blended series.

September 2012

E-OBS version 7.0 has been released.

July 2012

Bug fixed by using synop data in blending process.

July 2012

Increased station density in Finland. Finnish data will be updated by FMI each month.

June 2012

Maps with indices values have been added to the indices of extremes page.

June 2012

Maps with length of series have been added to the data dictionary.

May 2012

Following the side event in Berlin in 2011, you are invited to a second RCC side event during the 12th EMS Annual Meeting & 9th ECAC in Lodz, Poland on 13 Sep 2012.

May 2012

The new webaddress for ECA&D is http://www.ecad.eu. The old address (http://www.ecad.eu) will automatically link to the new one.

May 2012

The data problems are solved.

April 2012

E-OBS version 6.0 has been released.

March 2012

Included update for Belgian stations.

January 2012

Visualization of E-OBS maps has been added to daily data page.

September 2011

Increased station density in Norway.

September 2011

E-OBS version 5.0 has been released.

August 2011

Added option to the extreme events page to show events per country.

August 2011

The blending method has been changed. Now only stations within 12.5 km distance with less than 25 m height difference are used.

July 2011

Increased station density in Germany.

June 2011

Increased station density in Spain.

June 2011

Periods for homogeneity and trends have been changed.

May 2011

The bulk download page for indices data has been changed.

March 2011

Added option to the data dictionary to show series per participants.

March 2011

E-OBS version 4.0 including sea level pressure has been released.

December 2010

Extreme events fact sheet about the Russian heat wave has been added.

December 2010

Homogeneity results are shown on the indices time series page.

December 2010

New indices for consecutive summer days, relative humidity, cloud cover and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been added.

December 2010

Homogeneity tests for snow cover, sunshine, relative humidity and cloud cover have been added.

November 2010

Option to download pdf of extreme events has been added.

October 2010

Five new extreme events have been added.

October 2010

Czech Republic has increased the number of station considerably to 25. These data are updated by CHMI every month.

September 2010

Filenames and formats of some download files are slightly changed to increase the consistency between the download files.

September 2010

Header of the website is slightly changed, adding links to related projects and activities.

June 2010

Daily mean wind speed, daily maximum wind gust and wind direction have been added.

May 2010

All pressure series are now given in sea level pressure.

April 2010

E-OBS version 3.0 has been released covering 1950-2009.

April 2010

The aggregated data from MILLENNIUM have been updated as well as the download page for this data.

April 2010

The Anderson-Darling test has been performed on the fits for the return value maps.

February 2010

The main menu contains three new items. "Return values"shows maps to evaluate more rare extremes than described by the "Indices of extremes". "Extreme events" provides information about significant events from the past few decades (such as the heat wave of Summer, 2003). "Project info" combines the old project publications and links. In addition, new categories have been introduced and four more indices are available.

December 2009

Seven new indices are added.

November 2009

The statistical significance calculations of the trends in indices contained a bug. This has now been fixed and correct values of the significance are available. Thanks for noting Jaap!

October 2009

E-OBS gridded data files for 2009 are released. With every monthly update, the other files for 2009 will be updated as well.

July 2009

Time series of different indices for a single station can now be plotted at once, see "Time series plots".

June 2009

A few examples have been made to show possible uses of the indices of extremes related to GEO themes.

June 2009

An option to display climatology maps has been added.

March 2009

The portal for the E-OBS gridded dataset developed in the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES has now been integrated.

March 2009

A selection of the available Norwegian stations from the public database of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute have been added to the ECA&D database.

February 2009

All rain gauge stations from The Netherlands are added to the ECA&D database.

January 2009

KNMI has decided to make all daily data for all weather stations in the Netherlands freely available.

February 2008

A portal has been set up for the EU-FP6 MILLENNIUM project.