European State of the Climate 2019: a year of weather in the context of climate change
Implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of the European Commission, C3S publishes the European State of the Climate, an annual overview of climate trends and weather events, analysed in the context of historical patterns, for a broad range of climate indicators.
When it comes to designing strategies to deal with climate variability and change, we are only as powerful as the information at hand. By providing freely accessible, quality-assured climate data, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) empowers governments, businesses and scientists across Europe and beyond to manage climate risk.
The report supports the European Commission’s Green Deal and climate action by providing an essential overview of the past year’s climate, contributing to the longer-term perspective, and providing a benchmark for future assessments of the environment.
With the main data collection for 2019 complete, C3S has just published the latest edition, packed with findings related to temperature, precipitation, sea ice, glaciers, vegetation cover, greenhouse gas concentrations and more.
