The database is updated until: Jul 31, 2010.

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.

All news items

Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 56 participants for 61 countries and the ECA dataset contains 13736 series of observations for 12 elements at 3324 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary for an overview of all available series). Participation to ECA&D is open to anyone maintaining daily station data. If you want to join please contact us.

E-OBS version 3.0 has been released. E-OBS is a daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation and temperature in Europe based on ECA&D information. The full dataset covers the period 1950-2009. It has originally been developed as part of the ENSEMBLES project (EU-FP6) and is now maintained and elaborated as part of the EURO4M project (EU-FP7).

ECA&D has been designated as Regional Climate Centre (RCC) for WMO Region VI (Europe and the Middle East). RCCs are Centres of Excellence that assist WMO members in a given region to deliver better climate services and products, and to strengthen their capacity to meet national climate information needs. ECA&D provides such RCC-services for daily station data and extremes indices data.

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

P.O. Box 201
3730 AE De Bilt
The Netherlands
e-mail: eca@knmi.nl
fax: + 31 30 2204614