The database is updated until: May 31, 2017.

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.

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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).

Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 68 participants for 63 countries and the ECA dataset contains 43219 series of observations for 12 elements at 10584 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary). 76% 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 version 15.0 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 2016-12-31. It has originally been developed and updated as parts of the ENSEMBLES (EU-FP6) and EURO4M (EU-FP7) projects. Currently it is maintained and elaborated as part of the UERRA project (EU-FP7).

ECA&D has close links with the projects and initiatives below.

Meteoalarm   International Surface Temperature Initiative   UERRA   EURO4M   ENSEMBLES   MILLENNIUM   ACRE   ETCCDI   EEA   Copernicus/GMES   AOPC   EUPORIAS   CHARMe  

Joint research projects exist between ECA&D and the following institutes or initiatives

MEDARE Initiative   ETH   JRC   SMHI  

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

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