Repository details

European Climate Assessment & Dataset project

Name of repository
European Climate Assessment & Dataset project
Additional name(s)
  • ECA&D
Repository URL
https://www.ecad.eu/
Subject(s)
Description
Presented is information on changes in weather and climate extremes, as well as the daily dataset needed to monitor and analyse these extremes. map of participating countries. Today, ECA&D is receiving data from 59 participants for 62 countries and the ECA dataset contains 33265 series of observations for 12 elements at 7512 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean (see Daily data > Data dictionary). 51% 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
Contact(s)
  • eca@knmi.nl
Keyword(s)
Repository size
92.376 series of observations; for 13 elements; at 23.775 meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (3)

Institution
EUMETNET, European Climate Support Network
Additional name(s)
  • ECSN
Institution
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2003
End date of responsibility
2011
Institution
European Commission
Additional name(s)
  • EC
Institution
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Additional name(s)
  • Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
  • KNMI
Institution
Country
Netherlands
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2003

Policies (2)

Policy Name
data policy
Policy Name
Legal Information – General terms and conditions of use

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (2)

Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (1)

DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
ECAD datapolicy
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://www.ecad.eu/documents/ECAD_datapolicy.pdf
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Remarks

Remarks
ECA&D has been designated as Regional Climate Centre for Climate Data (RCC-CD) in WMO Region VI (Europe and the Middle East). 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).
Entry date
2012-09-11
Last update
2024-07-31
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re3data.org: European Climate Assessment & Dataset project; editing status 2024-07-31; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R30015 last accessed: 2025-05-09