Climate observations

The climatological network contains about 200 stations spread over the whole country. It consists of voluntary observers recruited by the RMI, professional observers of Skeyes (civil aviation) or the Air Force (military aviation) and civil servants of the state, communities or private companies. The observers measure the amount of rain fallen in the last 24 hours in the pluviometer of the RMI every morning at 8 o‘clock. In more than half of the stations the extreme air temperatures are also recorded by reading the maximum and minimum temperature in a standardized weather shelter. The observers send their observations either on a daily or on a monthly basis to RMI.

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Date (Publication): 2016-04-10

Citation identifier: RMI-be / climate_observations

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Owner

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Meteorological geographical features

Keywords

Reporting INSPIRE
federal government
Belgian municipalities
air temperature
precipitation
climatology
inspire

Spatial scope

National

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Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Use constraints: Other restrictions

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Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1831-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
CSV	1.0

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Title: 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: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: A climate observation is done by voluntary, professional, civil servants, communities or private companies.

Metadata

File identifier: RMI_DATASET_CLIMATE_OBSERVATIONS XML

Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-08-31

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8
Dutch; Flemish	UTF8
German	UTF8

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