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Main goal and partners
EURO4M is a EU funded project under the 7th framework programme,
theme 9 "Space".
The overall goal of EURO4M is to develop the capacity for and deliver the best possible and most complete gridded climate change time series and monitoring services covering all of Europe.
Specifically, the objectives of EURO4M are to:
Generate datasets consisting of time series of observations and reanalyses of past observational data;
Produce innovative and integrated high-quality data products for research and practical applications;
Out reach to the user community, stakeholders, policy-makers and the general public with data products and climate services;
Evolve into a future GMES service on climate change monitoring that is fully complimentary and supportive of the existing core services.
To achieve these objectives, a blend is made of surface observations, satellite observations and high-resolution reanalyses (see left menu).
The EURO4M project is a collaborative effort of 9 European partners:
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Met Office, United Kingdom
University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
National Meteorological Administration, Romania
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss,
Switzerland
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Météo France, France
Special arrangements are established with key international organizations, such as the EEA (European Environment Agency) as a prime user of EURO4M data and products. Other links include ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), EUMETNET (the network of European meteorological services) and GCOS (Global Climate Observing System).
EURO4M reanalyses contribute to worldwide reanalysis activities .
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Participating countries
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