ECSN (European Climate Support Network)
 
The Objectives
The objective of ECSN is to organise improved co-operation of its Members in the field of climate and related activities in order to expand their capabilities to support the European user community through enhanced provision of :
a)
 high quality climate data and products,
b)
 services and advice based on the Members climate expertise.
The scope of cooperative activities within EUMETNET extends to areas such as :
a)
 exchange of information : through publication and dissemination of ECSN activities ; updated European Climate Assessment ; conferences, workshops and training,
b)
 data projects : critiquing data, analyzing them, constructing data sets, developing catalogues and meta data,
c)
 methodology and applications of climatology : improving climate monitoring and measurements ; identifying users, customers and benefits of climate information ; collaborating on climate impact studies,
 
Work Programme
ECSN works by establishing projects to which interested Members participate.
ECSN has published the "European Climate Assessment 2000" and made the corresponding dataset (called ECD) available.
The ongoing projects are :
  • Showcase EUROGRID (S-EUROGRID) (SMHI)
  • Generation of Climate Monitoring Products
  • Climate Atlas of Europe
  • ECA & D to expand ECD and publish a new assessment by 2006.
 
Organisation

All EUMETNET Members participate to ECSN. In addition, the NMS of Hungary is a Member. The Responsible Member for the Programme for the first three years was the Spanish National Meteorological Service (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia). From 2001-2006 the Responsible Members was MeteoSwiss.

Since 1 January 2007, the Responsible Member for ECSN is KNMI.

The Programme Manager is Dr Aryan van Engelen
More details can be found on the ECSN site .
 
 
Updated : 22 August 2007