The database is updated until: Dec 31, 2011.

January 2012 - Visualization of E-OBS maps has been added to daily data page.

September 2011 - E-OBS version 5.0 has been released.

September 2011 - Increased station density in Norway.

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.

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ECA&D forms the backbone of the climate data node in the pilot 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 58 participants for 62 countries and the ECA dataset contains 26110 series of observations for 12 elements at 4824 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary). 48% of these series is public, which means downloadable from this website for non-commercial research. 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 5.0 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 2011-06-30. 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 close links with the projects and initiatives below.

Meteoalarm   MEDARE Initiative   International Surface Temperature Initiative   EURO4M   ENSEMBLES   MILLENNIUM   ACRE   ETCCDI   EEA

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

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