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EMO: A high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological data set for Europe

Collection: CEMS-EFAS : European Flood Awareness System 

Description

EMO (European Meteorological Observations) is a European high-resolution, (sub-)daily, multi-variable gridded meteorological data set built on historical and real-time observations. EMO is a Copernicus Emergency Management Service product and includes at daily resolution: total precipitation, temperatures (minimum and maximum), wind speed, solar radiation and water vapour pressure. In addition, EMO also makes available 6-hourly precipitation and mean temperature. The raw observations from the ground weather stations underwent a set of quality controls, before SPHEREMAP and Yamamoto interpolation methods were applied in order to estimate for each grid cell the variable value and its affiliated uncertainty, respectively. Further information on the methods used can be found in the below scientific publication of the dataset. Currently, EMO is available in two spatial resolutions: EMO-5 provides grids with a spatial resolution of 5kmx5km and covers the time period from 1990 to 2019. EMO-1 provides grids with a spatial resolution of 1arcminx1arcmin (approx. 1.5km) and covers the time period from 1990-2022. Note that EMO-5 is not supported anymore (i.e. no updates or bug-fixes are introduced) and we recommend to use EMO-1.

Contact

Email
Peter.SALAMON (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

Gomes, Goncalo; Thiemig, Vera; Skøien, Jon Olav; Ziese, Markus; Rauthe-Schöch, Armin; Rustemeier, Elke; Rehfeldt, Kira; Walawender, Jakub; Kolbe, Christine; Pichon, Damien; Schweim, Christoph; Salamon, Peter (2020): EMO: A high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological data set for Europe. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/0BD84BE4-CEC8-4180-97A6-8B3ADAAC4D26 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/0bd84be4-cec8-4180-97a6-8b3adaac4d26

Data access

EMO-1 (1990 - 2022)
Use conditions
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 

  • Distribution of the dataset of European Meteorological Observations with spatial resolution of 1 arcmin

EMO-5 (1990-2019)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 

  • Distribution of the dataset of European Meteorological Observations with spatial resolution of 5 km

Publications

Publication
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe
Thiemig, V., Gomes, G. N., Skøien, J. O., Ziese, M., Rauthe-Schöch, A., Rustemeier, E., Rehfeldt, K., Walawender, J. P., Kolbe, C., Pichon, D., Schweim, C., and Salamon, P.: EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 3249–3272, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3249-2022, 2022
DOI
10.5194/essd-14-3249-2022

Spatial coverage

Type Value
GML 
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GML 
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WKT 
POLYGON ((-25.25 72.25, 50.25 72.25, 50.25 22.75, -25.25 22.75, -25.25 72.25))

Temporal coverage

From date To date
1990-01-01 2021-12-31

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-10-29
Modified date
2023-03-15
Issued date
2020-07-29
Data theme(s)
Environment, Science and technology
Update frequency
annual
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/0bd84be4-cec8-4180-97a6-8b3adaac4d26
Popularity