1. ECA&D Current status and future Maarten van der Hoeven
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
The Netherlands
14 September 2005

2. Topics Brief introduction of the project Collecting data
Showing results

3. What is ECA&D? European Climate Assessment & Dataset Goal:
To achieve a climatological overview of Europe on trends of extremes (A)
and
An easy access to high resolution daily data and analyses (D)
Joint project of 45 participants ; 41 countries; key success factor!
Collect high quality data with daily resolution
Share knowledge, input of suggestions (questionaire)
Processing of data
Quality control procedures
Analyse data
Disseminate data
Communication by means of
Website
Assessment report

4. Participation

5. D: Collecting data New data (updates, elements) from participants
Facilitating ENSEMBLES project
ECA&D as a infrastructure
Adding third party data (restrictions apply)
409 (+120) observing stations
1634 (+800) data series
9 (+4) elements
Improving existing and developing new quality control
New climatological indices
Database: 750 (+500) million records

6. Growth in number of series

7. Showing results

8. Presentation solution

9. Presentation solution

10. Thank you Further information
Project website
Project
Detailed project information on the website
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