Climate statistics

A climate normal is an average over a 30-years period. The period 1981-2010 is the current reference period recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Recent climate normals are available for any locations in Belgium and several parameters including air temperature, precipitations and solar radiation. Climate normals for the reference period 1981-2010 are available for air temperature, precipitation and derived parameters (e.g., annual number of summer days, annual number of precipitation days, etc.). For solar radiation, the reference period had to be adjusted to 1984-2013 because of data availability. These climate normals are available as maps and as table for each Belgian municipality.

Date (Publication): 2016-10-01

Identifier: RMI-be / climate_statistics

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Owner

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Meteorological geographical features

Keywords

Reporting INSPIRE
federal government
climatology
observation
climate statistics
1981-2010 climate normals
air temperature
precipitation
wind speed
wind direction
solar radiation
sunshine duration
Belgian municipalities
inspire

Spatial scope

National

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Use constraints: Intellectual property rights

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1981-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2009-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

PDF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource: RMI opendata portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
RMI opendata portal

OnLine resource: Individual PDF files for each commune (identified by their NIS number). Available in French and Dutch ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )
Individual PDF files for each commune (identified by their NIS number). Available in French and Dutch

OnLine resource: Climate normals (French portal) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Climate normals (French portal)

OnLine resource: Climate normals (Dutch portal) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Climate normals (Dutch portal)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: The climate statistics are derived from 30-years long observations timeseries in Belgium spatially interpolated on the Belgian territory.