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The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) established a list of Essential Climate Variables (ECV's) that need to be measured in order to monitor the climate effectively.

The table gives pointers to the observation datasets and the reanalyses datasets of several atmospheric ECV's which have been developed as part of EURO4M.

Available datasets are colour-coded. More datasets will become available during the course of the project.


Essential Climate Variable Output datasets Area Spatial resolution Period
Precipitation Gridded daily high-resolution dataset (D1.1) Alpine region 2-5 km 1971-present
Precipitation GPCC gridded dataset (D1.3) European window 0.5 degree 1901-2007
Precipitation, temperature E-OBS gridded dataset (D1.4) European, incl. N. Africa 25 km 1950-present
Atmospheric surface variables, (potential evapotranspiration and PDSI) CRU gridded data products (D1.6) European/Global window 0.5 degree 1901-present
Earth radiation budget (surface solar irradiance (SSI), albedo) Heliosat gridded dataset (D1.7 based on MVIRI instrument onboard MFG European window 0.05 degree 1986-2006
Precipitation Integrated HOAPS/GPCC gridded dataset (D1.8) European window 0.5 degree 1986-2006
Water vapour ATOVS gridded dataset (D1.9) European window 90 km 2004-present
Earth radiation budget (SSI), precipitation and cloud properties MSG based gridded datasets (D1.10) Europe, incl. N. Africa 5 km 2005-present
Pressure, temperature, precipitation Updated and merged station based dataset (D1.12, D1.13) All countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea Points From 1850 onwards
Set of atmospheric surface and upper-air variables 4DVAR-based regional reanalysis (D2.1) NAE-region 12/36 km 1-2 years
Set of atmospheric surface and upper-air variables 3DVAR-based regional reanalysis (D2.3) HIRLAM region 25 km Most of the past 20 yr period
Set of atmospheric survaface variables Downscaled dataset (D2.4) HIRLAM region3-12 km Most of the past 20 yr period