Advances in Science and Research www.adv-sci-res.net 1992-0628 1992-0636 1 6th EMS Annual Meeting and 6th European Conference on Applied Climatology 2006 2007 10.5194/asr-1-9-2007 http://www.adv-sci-res.net/1/9/2007/ http://www.adv-sci-res.net/1/9/2007/asr-1-9-2007.html http://www.adv-sci-res.net/1/9/2007/asr-1-9-2007.pdf 9 13 2007-09-19 EuCLIS – a web based European climate information system P. Bissolli peter.bissolli@dwd.de German Meteorological Service, Offenbach, Germany The German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) is presently developing a European climate information system (EuCLIS) which is presented here. The aim of this system is to distribute climate monitoring information of the area of the WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) Region VI (Europe and the Middle East) via the web. EuCLIS will be the successor of the already existing platform GCMP (Generate Climate Monitoring Products) which emerged from a project of the ECSN (European Climate Support Network). Climate monitoring information can be all kind of maps, diagrams and texts describing the variability of climate variables in space and time. It can be provided by the public national meteorological and hydrological services of all countries of the WMO Region VI. The main advantage is to have one common efficient climate monitoring distribution system for the whole Region, but the individual meteorological and hydrological services have the possibility to administrate their products on their own. EuCLIS considers the WMO metadata standard and modern web portal technology. In an advanced state, EuCLIS is intended to be used as a platform for a function of a Regional Climate Centre for Climate Monitoring which is currently planned at the WMO. Behrendt, J. and Rösner, S.: The climate information system KLIS at the DWD, Climate and Environmental Database Systems, Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, edited by: Lautenschlager, M., Boston, 1997. Bissolli, P., Hechler, P., and Nitsche H.: WMO Regional Climate Centres – concept and DWD's potential role, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Climate Status Report 2005. Bundesverwaltungsamt of the German government: Government Site Builder (in German), Cologne, http://www.government-site-builder.de, 2007. Dobesch, H., Dumolard, P., and Dyras, I. (Eds.): Spatial interpolation for climate data, ISTE Ltd., London, 2007. Hubbard, K. G., DeGaetano, A. T., and Robbins, K. D.: A modern applied climate information system, B. Am. Meteor. Soc., 85, 811–812, 2004. ISO Catalogue 2007: available at the Organization for Standardization (ISO), ISBN 978-92-67-10433-1, 2007. Scherrer, S. C., Appenzeller, C., Liniger, M. A., and Schär, C.: European temperature distribution changes in observations and climate change scenarios, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19705, doi:10.1029/2005GL024108, 2005. Shang, Z., Gao, Q., and Yang, D.: The climate information system of China, Clim. Res., 18, 229–247, 2001.