EEA geospatial data catalogue
Projected number of extreme heatwaves (2068-2100; RCP 8.5; number in 33 years), Jul. 2015
The gridded dataset presents the median of the projected number of extreme heatwaves in the future (2068–2100) in Europe, following the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 8.5 scenario. The dataset is one of the multimodel ensemble used to project future occurrence and severity of heat waves under different RCP, which were adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).
The dataset is one of the output of the JRC “Number of heat waves” data described here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2014JD022098
The dataset has been used as a source for the EEA indicator “Global and European temperature”: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/global-and-european-temperature-8/assessment, which in the meantime has been updated .
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-06-23T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-07-13T00:00:00
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- jrc_r_4326_112_arcmin_extreme-heatwaves_p_2068-2100_v01_r00
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 1.865 deg
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 112 arcmin
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2068-01-01 2100-12-31
Extent
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GEMET
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temperature
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climate change adaptation
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climate
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temperature change
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climate change impact
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Europe
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- EEA topics
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Climate adaptation
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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This dataset is derived from the “Number of heat waves” dataset, provided by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), so for its further re-use the latest JRC Open Data Policy applies: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC115832/kjna27163enn.pdf.
As a data processed and disseminated by the EEA, it falls also under the License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). More inforrmation about EEA data policy: https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/eea-data-policy.
- Language
- English
Distribution Information
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Details about this dataset multimodel ensemble are available in: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014JD022098.
The Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 8.5 is described by Taylor et al. (An overview of CMIP5 and the experiment design, 2012. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 93, 485–498) as corresponding to the rising radiative forcing reaching a level of about 8,5 W/m² by the end of the 21st century.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4326
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- a18bcf0e-14bc-43fc-adaf-8fd4f72efbd0
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/a18bcf0e-14bc-43fc-adaf-8fd4f72efbd0
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-07-02T11:44:34Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:28:57.630064Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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