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Climate indicators for Europe from 1940 to 2100 derived from reanalysis and climate projections

This dataset provides a series of climate indices derived from reanalysis and model simulations data hosted on the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS). These indicators describe how climate variability and change of essential climate variables can impact sectors such as health, agriculture, forestry, energy, tourism, or water and coastal management. Those indices are relevant for adaptation planning at the European and national level and their development was driven by the European Environment A

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Source details

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Evidence quality: 44.4

Listed in cds public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: aridity actual · consecutive dry days · cooling degree days · daily maximum temperature · daily minimum temperature · days with high fire danger · duration of meteorological droughts · extreme precipitation total · extreme sea level · extreme wind speed days · fire weather index · flood recurrence · frequency of extreme precipitation · frost days · growing degree days · growing season length · growing season start · heating degree days · heatwave days · high UTCI days · hot days · magnitude of meteorological droughts · maximum consecutive five-day precipitation · mean river discharge · mean soil moisture · mean temperature · mean wind speed · relative sea level rise · snowfall amount · tiger mosquito season length · tiger mosquito suitability index · total precipitation · tropical nights · warmest three-day period
Coverage docs-verified: Europe · 1940-2100
Resolution docs-verified: 0.25° x 0.25° regular latitude-longitude grid (spatial); monthly, seasonal, yearly (temporal)
Update frequency docs-verified: Annual
Formats docs-verified: NetCDF-4
Access llm-inferred: Free under CC-BY-4.0 licence (version from entry metadata); CDS account login likely needed to download

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Regional climate adaptation baseline for flood risk assessments using river discharge and flood recurrence indicators · Drainage strategy inputs from extreme precipitation, five-day maximum precipitation and frequency of extreme precipitation indicators · Coastal scheme screening using relative sea level rise and extreme sea level indicators · Water resources or drought planning using mean soil moisture, aridity and drought magnitude/duration indicators
Audience llm-inferred: flood consultants · drainage engineers · hydrologists · coastal engineers · climate adaptation planners · water resources planners

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred: European-wide 0.25° grid is too coarse for site-scale or UK catchment-scale work without downscaling · Not UK-specific; UK coverage is implied only by the Europe domain · Indicators derive from different underlying datasets with different technical specifications, so they are not fully consistent · Projection-based indicators carry model uncertainty and cover different periods · Dataset versions v1.0 and v2.0 are listed; check which version is used

Evidence

Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.