Europe Climate Data – Are There Better Climate Data Than Worldclim for Europe

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I am looking for the best available climate data in Europe. Worldclim seems to be the best source of information for global data, but I am wondering if there is a higher resolution (better than 1km cell size and/or 1 month temporal resolution) product in Europe. (I've seen on this site that PRISM is great for the USA, but I couldn't find anything similar for Europe).

EDIT : my purpose is to use the dataset for ecological modeling.

EDIT: if you use another dataset, I am very interested in knowing why it is used instead of worldclim.

Best Answer

European Reanalysis Interim (ERA-Interim) | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

State-of-the-art 3rd generation reanalysis (1979-present) with robust physics and data assimilation.0.75°x0.75° global grid with 60 vertical levels. Well suited for climate study within the satellite era.

European Reanalysis 40-year (ERA-40) | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Moderate resolution 2nd generation reanalysis (1958-2001) known to perform better than first generation reanalyses (e.g., NCEP/NCAR V1).1.125°x1.125° global grid with 60 vertical levels.

More Information:

http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/do/get/index

Data Server (by Month from 1979):

http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim_full_daily/

  • includes 100's of data layers, too many to list here
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