E C A C 2000

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E C A C 2000
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• European Climate Assessment
• Pisa, 16 October 2000

Albert Klein Tank KNMI, the Netherlands
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• Aim at WMO Region VI (Europe and Middle East)
• Note EUMETNET/ECSN 18 out of 48 countries

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Guide

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

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Indicators based on 144 daily temperature
series 152 daily precipitation series
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Use of climate indicators

• E.g.
• Tx
• ETR/DTR
• Id
• Tx10/Tx90
• Wd/Su/Csu
• HWFI

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Trend map examples
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(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
• ???

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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)