1. E C A C 2000 European Climate Assessment Pisa, 16 October 2000 Albert Klein Tank KNMI, the Netherlands X

3. Aim at WMO Region VI (Europe and Middle East) Note: EUMETNET/ECSN = 18 out of 48 countries

4. Guide ECA-project approach Use of climate indicators Trend map examples (Near) future Concluding remarks

5. Indicators based on: 144 daily temperature series 152 daily precipitation series

6. Use of climate indicators E.g. Tx ETR/DTR Id Tx10/Tx90 Wd/Su/Csu HWFI

7. Trend map examples

8. (Near) future Text drafting: –New daily data set of surface air temperature and precipitation observations for European Climate Assessment –Homogeneity of the ECA temperature data –Trends in indicators for temperature and precipitation extremes –???

9. Concluding remarks Additional data gathering (still gaps) and processing required Discussion on daily series QC / homogeneity issues (  Janet Wijngaard) Follow-up in ECD-project (  Aryan van Engelen)