1. European Climate Assessment Copenhagen, 22 November 2001
ECA
European Climate Assessment
Copenhagen, 22 November 2001
Janet Wijngaard
KNMI, the Netherlands

5. European Climate Assessment
Analyse extremes in temperature
and precipitation in Europe for
the 20th century

7. Approach: climate indicators
Short-list compiled with climate indicators for temperature and precipitation
Daily resolution improves description of (changes in) extremes
Indicators are based on fixed thresholds and percentiles thresholds to account for different climates in Europe

9. Temperature extremes

15. Warm spells winter

16. Cold spells winter

17. Precipitation extremes

24. Data quality
Quality control
Homogeneity analysis
metadata

25. Remarks Final ECA-report published spring next year
Data available (ECD) on cd-rom and web:
Follow-up project and data updates ?