2026
CLIMATE / SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

State of the Climate ― at a Local Level

Regional State of the Climate dashboard

Summary

The Regional State of the Climate dashboard (RSOTC) provides data related to the climate evolution of different regions in Europe, extracted from Copernicus Climate Change Service‘s ERA5 reanalysis datasets.

The idea behind its development is to fill a void since there are no open-source tools to supply information as the one gathered in State of the Climate reports, such as what the World Meteorological Organization publishes every year at global level, Copernicus at European level and Ihobel at a regional level for the Basque Country.

This tool –developed thanks to the EU-funded OSCARS project– makes regional and local data, essential planning in local administrations and companies, freely available to everyone.

The RSOTC dashboard shows indicators connected to temperature, rainfall or wind (also used in state of the climate reports at higher levels) via a set of graphics that allow to easily identify extraordinary events. Besides, its data is updated monthly.

We counted on our regular partners at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) for the development of the tool.

Should you want more information, you may browse the RSOTC dashboard.

Main Features

  • Climate change information at regional and local levels
  • Updated with new data on a monthly basis
  • Climate variables used in the main state of the climate reports
  • Open software and date in public repositories
RSOTC CONTACT

    A FAIR and reproducible dashboard

    Global and continental state of the climate reports do not typically follow FAIR principles (to be easily findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) and despite data tend to be open, code and algorithms used for downloading and processing are not, which hinders ir reproducibility.
    Our dashboard strictly follows the FAIR principles and so does its design so that it can be reproduced in other regions of the planet.
    This way, we’re trying to promote the creation of state of the climate reports at the regional levels we offer in our tool.

    Several regional and temporal dimensions

    The dashboard features four different geographical levels, based on the EU-defined nomenclature for territorial units for statistics (NUTS):

    • Level 3: small regions.
    • Level 2: basic regions.
    • Level 1: major socio-economic regions.
    • Level 0: countries.

    That regarding territory, but how about temporal dimensions? The top dropdown menus allow users to select a particular year (from 2016 to present), and also the season of the year, and even a particular month.

    Furthermore, there is information displayed in text format as a summary, detailing trends, averages and anomalies in regions and periods selected for a series of indicators.

    The tool provides the same information with the same graphs for each of these geographical and temporal levels with the ultimate goal of reaching the final users’ analysis dimension, according to their needs.

    Adapted graphs

    Among the many charts shown in the RSOTC dashboard, two of them are adapted from excellent data visualisation ideas:

    • Ed Hawkings’ Climate Stripes, which we applied not only to yearly surface air temperature as in the case of the original stripes, but expanded them to reflect the evolution of rainfall and wind too.
    • The average daily mean chart of surface air temperature created by created by Copernicus Climate Change Service, has also been adapted with minor variations to rainfall and wind variables.
      This graph allows users to find anomalies compared to the reference period at a glance.

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