ECA

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ECAD
Using open source GIS Mapserver in ECAD

• Maarten van der Hoeven
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
• The Netherlands
• hoevenvd_at_knmi.nl
• 8 december 2005

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Topics

• Brief introduction of the project
• Collecting data
• Showing results

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What is ECAD?

• European Climate Assessment Dataset
• Goal
• To achieve a climatological overview of Europe on
  trends of extremes (A)
• and
• An easy access to high resolution daily data and
  analyses (D)
• Joint project of 45 participants 41 countries
  key success factor!
• Collect high quality data with daily resolution
• Share knowledge, input of suggestions
  (questionaire)
• Processing of data
• Quality control procedures
• Analyse data
• Disseminate data
• Communication by means of
• Website http//eca.knmi.nl
• Email eca_at_knmi.nl
• Assessment report

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Participation
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D Collecting data

• New data (updates, elements) from participants
• Facilitating ENSEMBLES project
• ECAD as a infrastructure
• Adding third party data (restrictions apply)
• 1571 (1282) observing stations
• 4859 (3867) data series
• 9 (4) elements
• Improving existing and developing new quality
  control
• New climatological indices
• Database 1300 (1000) million daily data records

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Growth in number of series
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New data so whats the problem?

• Displaying results dynamically, but with
  geographical fixed dimension
• More data on the same dimension a mess
• Looking for a solution real dynamic maps
• Demonstration on the development server

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Further information

• Email hoevenvd_at_knmi.nl
• Project website http//eca.knmi.nl
• Project email eca_at_knmi.nl
• Detailed project information on the website

Thank you