GRASS GIS 7 Location containing country borders and ECA&D data.

Projection: LatLong/WGS84 - EPSG:4326

Content:

- NaturalEarth Admin0 country borders
- Aggregated time series based on ECA&D data, ECA&D V5:
  derived from daily data, 0.25° pixel resolution
  - precip.1951_1980.monthly_sums.01 .. 12 and annual sums
  - precip.1981_2010.01.sum .. 12.sum and annual sums
  - tmean.1951_1980.monthly_avgs.01 .. 12
  - tmean.1981_2010.01.avg ... 12.avg

- Related elevation model

Sources:

- Admin0 boundaries "country_boundaries" from
  http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/
- European Climate Assessment & Dataset project, http://www.ecad.eu/


Acknowledgement - Citation

The data in this directory is based on the ECA&D project E-OBS 
dataset. We acknowledge the data providers in the ECA&D project.

Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors, 2002. Daily dataset of 
20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for 
the European Climate Assessment. Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 
1441-1453.
Data and metadata available at http://www.ecad.eu/

We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES 
(http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the 
ECA&D project (http://eca.knmi.nl).

Haylock, M.R., N. Hofstra, A.M.G. Klein Tank, E.J. Klok, P.D. Jones, 
and M. New (2008), A European daily high-resolution gridded data set 
of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950-2006. J. Geophys. 
Res., 113, D20119, doi:10.1029/2008JD010201

