New website http://eca.knmi.nl

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New website http//eca.knmi.nl

• Maarten van der Hoeven
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
• The Netherlands
• Maarten.van.der.hoeven_at_knmi.nl
• 28 September 2004

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Guide

• What is ECA?
• Participation
• Tools
• Up-to-date data
• Custom datasets and their quality
• Monitor maps
• New features in the near future

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What is ECA?

• Initiated by ECSN, sponsored by EUMETNET
• Communication platform between 43 participants
• Inform policy makers on climatological impacts
• 43 participants key success factor!
• Gather high quality data with daily resolution
• Apply quality control procedures
• Analyse data for climatological purposes
• Disseminate data
• European Climate Assessment report in 2006

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Participation
J O I N !
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Tools

• Open source
• Database MySQL (http//www.mysql.com)
• Statistics R (http//www.r-project.org)
• Web logics PHP (http//www.php.net)

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Up-to-date data

• Data from participants
• Validated, but not always up-to-date
• Data from GTS (synops)
• Not validated, but up-to-date
• Fill gaps, extend series

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Up-to-date data

• Daily quality control procedures inevitable
• Participant data therefore still needed!
• PS. To blend the series is optional

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Custom datasets and their quality

• Two ways to get the data
• By using the website
• By using a DODS-client (not explained here
  working examples on the website)

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Three days behind (captured 20 September)
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New features in the near future

• The website serving as a platform
• Participants to maintain own data (raw, meta)
• Upload and check own datasets
• Use ECA statistic functions on own datasets
• Links to other EUMETNET/ECSN projects
• UNIDART linking distributed databases
• ENSEMBLES use ECA data for gridding

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Thanks

• http//eca.knmi.nl
• Email eca_at_knmi.nl
• Detailed project information on the website
• Website examples as handout