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Welcome to the website of the European Climate Assessment & Dataset project. Presented is information on changes in weather and climate extremes, as well as the daily dataset needed to monitor and analyse these extremes. ECA&D was initiated by the ECSN in 1998 and has received financial support from the EUMETNET and the European Commission.

 

What's new?

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The database is updated until: Aug 31, 2023.

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.

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ECA&D and WMO

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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).

 

Participants and data

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Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 85 participants for 65 countries and the ECA dataset contains 86884 series of observations for 13 elements at 23349 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. 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 gridded dataset

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E-OBS version 27.0e has been released. E-OBS is a daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation, temperature, sea level pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and global radiation in Europe based on ECA&D information. The full dataset covers the period 1950-01-01 until 2022-12-31. 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.

 

Involvement

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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  

 

 

Contact us

ECA&D Project Team
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)

P.O. Box 201
3730 AE De Bilt
The Netherlands
e-mail: eca@knmi.nl

Staff:

Gerard van der Schrier

Else van den Besselaar

Rinus Scheele

Jouke de Baar

 

Design:

Studio KNMI