dataset · Europe
E-OBS daily gridded meteorological data for Europe from 1950 to present derived from in-situ observations
E-OBS is a daily gridded land-only observational dataset over Europe. The blended time series from the station network of the European Climate Assessment & Dataset (ECA&D) project form the basis for the E-OBS gridded dataset. All station data are sourced directly from the European National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) or other data holding institutions. For a considerable number of countries the number of stations used is the complete national network and therefore much more
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Licence: other
Evidence quality: 33.1
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
- Daily maximum temperature (°C) · Daily mean temperature (°C) · Daily minimum temperature (°C) · Daily precipitation amount (mm) · Daily mean relative humidity (%) · Daily mean sea level pressure (hPa) · Surface shortwave downwelling radiation (W m-2) · Daily mean wind speed at 10 m (m s-1) · Land surface elevation (m)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Europe (land only) · January 1950 to present
- Resolution docs-verified
- 0.1° x 0.1° and 0.25° x 0.25° grid (spatial); daily (temporal)
- Update frequency docs-verified
- New versions added every 6 months
- Formats docs-verified
- NetCDF-4
- Access docs-verified
- E-OBS product licence; Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) login/registration appears on the page
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Long-term daily temperature and precipitation context for regional climate baselines in flood risk or drainage assessments · Daily extremes analysis (rainfall and temperature) to support climate change adaptation statements · Observational benchmark for validating climate model or downscaled projections over Europe, including the UK
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · flood risk consultants · drainage engineers · climate change consultants · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Land-only grid; no ocean coverage · Daily time step only; no sub-daily data · Daily values may cover different 24-hour periods by region and are not adjusted for this offset · Some quality items (e.g. uncertainty, consistency) are marked QA Not Passed on the page · Licence is an E-OBS product licence, so redistribution terms should be checked before reuse · Gridded and derived from station data, so local accuracy depends on station density
Evidence
- https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/catalogue/v1/collections/insitu-gridded-observations-europe
- https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/insitu-gridded-observations-europe
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.