The database is updated until: Oct 31, 2009.

November 2009 - The statistical significance calculations of the trends 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 - The ECA&D database has seen a major update. This leads to the use of changed ECA&D station numbers throughout this website, so be careful when using programs that use certain station numbers. Click here for more background information. Please report any problems or suggestions to the project team (eca@knmi.nl).
July 2009 - Time series of different indices for a single station can now be plotted at once, see "Time series plots".
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E-OBS version 2.0 has been released including the possibility to download chunks of about 15 years. The full dataset covers the period 1950-2008. The possibility to access the dataset through OPeNDAP/DODS has been added as well as monthly updates for the current year. This daily gridded observation dataset has been developed as part of the ENSEMBLES project (EU-FP6).

Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 55 participants for 62 countries and the ECA dataset contains 12047 series of observations at 3089 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.

The ECA&D infrastructure is used in several related EUMETNET activities. EUROGRID will produce gridded datasets based on ECA&D. ECA&D provides such RCC-services for daily station data and extremes indices data in WMO Region VI (Europe and the Middle East).

MILLENNIUM is a European Union project under FP6. It aims to answer a single question: Does the magnitude and rate of 20th Century climate change exceed the natural variability of European climate over the last millennium? As part of this project, monthly aggregated station datasets for precipitation and temperature indices have been developed on the basis of ECA&D.

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