Advances in Science and Research www.adv-sci-res.net 1992-0628 1992-0636 3 8th EMS Annual Meeting and 7th European Conference on Applied Climatology 2008 2009 10.5194/asr-3-85-2009 http://www.adv-sci-res.net/3/85/2009/ http://www.adv-sci-res.net/3/85/2009/asr-3-85-2009.html http://www.adv-sci-res.net/3/85/2009/asr-3-85-2009.pdf 85 89 2009-04-29 Showcase EUROGRID – towards a European resource for gridded climate data, products and services T. Klein thomas.klein@smhi.se C. Persson Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden EUROGRID is the vision of the European network of meteorological services (EUMETNET) about a European service for gridded climate monitoring information and products responding to the needs of users from a variety of domains. The EUMETNET project Showcase EUROGRID (S-EUROGRID) presented in this paper has the main objective to provide a better understanding of the EUROGRID idea and the way forward towards its realization. In addition to the identification of user requirements on gridded climate monitoring data and services S-EUROGRID aims to demonstrate example products and services building on existing shared gridded climate monitoring information available from European meteorological and hydrological services and other initiatives. The latter includes a harmonized visualization of data, the generation of example products/services and the dissemination of raw or processed data to the user community. For these purposes S-EUROGRID needed a simple and low-cost technical solution allowing for the seamless integration and dissemination of maps and data contributed by distributed resources, leading to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)-protocols as one promising option. In this concept, data providers can set up their own OGC-compliant services for climate data, which then can be viewed/accessed in a harmonized way, e.g. through the S-EUROGRID portal or by a user's specific client software (e.g. a GIS). Dynamic (i.e. real-time) generation of products is beyond the scope of S-EUROGRID, but the architectural choice of OGC-standards offers easy ways for client-side data processing, e.g., using the end user's GIS capacity. In addition, S-EUROGRID hosts a selection of pre-processed example products, illustrating the potential of combining gridded climate monitoring information with data and information sources from other thematic domains. Deutscher Wetterdienst: Extreme precipitation amounts in Central Europe from 1–13 August, available at: http://www.meteo.uni-koeln.de/content/downloads/rr_extreme200208_germany.pdf, 2002. Jansson, A., Persson, C., and G. Strandberg: 2D meso-scale re-analysis of precipitation, temperature and wind over Europe – ERAMESAN. Time period 1980–2004, SMHI, RMK 112, 2007. OGC: www.opengeospatial.org, last access: 15~December~2008. OpenLayers: www.openlayers.org, last access: 15~December~2008. SwissRe, Floods are insurable!, available at: http://www.swissre.com/resources/5e8fa700462fa8c48348d3300190b89f-Floods_en.pdf, 2002. Ulbrich, U., Brücher, T., Fink, A. H., Leckebusch, G. C., Krüger, A., and Pinto, J. G.: The central European floods of August 2002: Part 1 – Rainfall periods and flood development, Weather, 58, 371–377, 2003a. Ulbrich, U., Brücher, T., Fink, A. H., Leckebusch, G. C., Krüger, A., and Pinto, J. G.: The central European floods of August 2002: Part 2 – Synoptic causes and considerations with respect to climatic change, Weather, 58, 434–442, 2003b.