[GRASS-user] E-OBS climate data and TGIS in GRASS

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Markus Metz-3 wrote
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <

> hellik@

> > wrote:
>> Hi Veronica,
>>
>>>There is a presentation from Soeren at 2012 GEOSTAT course [0] in which
he
>> uses one of ECAD datasets as >example. Maybe useful?
>>
>> thanks for the hint!
>>
>>>Which particular dataset there you want to use?
>>
>> http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/download.php#datafiles
>>
>> daily mean temperature TG,
>> daily minimum temperature TN
>> daily maximum temperature TX
>> daily precipitation sum RR
> 
> ECA&D contain some serious errors:
> 
> 1. look at the spatial distribution and location of the stations used
> 
> http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/data/ensembles_tg_stations_v12.0.txt
> http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/data/ensembles_tn_stations_v12.0.txt
> http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/data/ensembles_tx_stations_v12.0.txt
> http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/data/ensembles_rr_stations_v12.0.txt
> 
> 2. calculate annual averages and check if they match your
> expectations. They did not match my expectations (and those of my
> group) so we decided to ditch ECA&D.
>>
>>>what are you interested in doing, if I may ask?
>>
>> I have vegetation samples across Europe, from the North to the South,
>> from
>> the West to Caucasus. as this vegetation types are sensitive to
>> temperature
>> and precipitation, such parameters may be included in ecology pattern
>> analysis.
> 
> If possible, use a datasource different from ECA&D

thanks for the insigth to this dataset. 

do you have any recommondations for alternatives regarding Europe? 



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Helmut
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