Sizing an investment, preparing a crop, or backing an adaptation plan requires knowing the climate you have had and the one that is coming. The European C3S service puts that foundation within reach of any organization.
ERA5: hourly global climate since 1940
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is the backbone of any serious climate service in Europe. These four applications rest on its operational products, with their real resolutions and licenses:
The reference reanalysis: hourly global climate from 1940 at roughly 28-31 km resolution, with ERA5-Land at 9 km since 1950. Free access through the Climate Data Store, under a CC BY 4.0 license that allows commercial use.
1940-present · hourly
The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas (2024) gathers 35 variables from 12 datasets, including CMIP6 and CORDEX projections at about 12.5 km over Europe: scenarios you can consult without building your own infrastructure.
CMIP6/CORDEX · ~12.5 km in Europe
On top of reanalysis and projections, we build physical risk reports for companies and regional adaptation systems, aligned with public climate adaptation platforms and strategies.
C3S · CC BY 4.0
Where climate meets farming: improving crops by analyzing weather values and multiple spectral indices: frost risk, water stress, and sowing windows on the real parcel.
weather + spectral indices
The global average temperature has spent three years around the 1.5°C threshold of the Paris Agreement: if you size an investment or a crop plan with the climate of thirty years ago, you are deciding with an old map.
Climate data only matters if it changes a decision: which variety to plant, which infrastructure to reinforce, which risk to accept and which to transfer. We turn ERA5 and the projections into indicators per parcel, asset, or municipality, integrated into your decision system, with the uncertainty declared:
Sentinel-3 and Landsat satellites measure surface temperature (LST, how hot the ground, the asphalt, or the rooftops are, not the air). The system averages several summer passes and shows which neighborhoods overheat most and which cool down with trees or water. The output is an urban heat island map that ranks where to prioritize shade, greenery, or cool pavements.
Sentinel-3 and Landsat · land surface temperature (LST)
The European Drought Observatory combines rainfall, soil moisture, and plant vigor into indicators such as the SPI, which measures whether it has rained more or less than normal, and the CDI, which merges several signals into a single drought traffic light. The system tracks those indices over your district or your basin and alerts you when they turn to warning. You anticipate restrictions and plan the season weeks ahead.
European Drought Observatory · SPI and CDI · weekly
After an extreme event, comparing the Sentinel image from before and after measures the affected area: what flooded, what burned, or which crop was lost. The system computes that difference over your assets or your municipality and sums it up in figures and a map. You get the evidence for a claim, an aid request, or an adaptation plan, with the uncertainty declared.
Sentinel-1 and 2 · before and after · affected area
Tell us. We will tell you which dataset answers it, at what resolution, and with what uncertainty.
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