1. WRMA-WMO-World Bank-WFP Expert Meeting, Geneva, Dec. 2007 KNMI servicing the market Albert.Klein.Tank@KNMI.nl

2. WRMA-WMO-World Bank-WFP Expert Meeting, Geneva, Dec. 2007 KNMI: public safety tasks; no longer commercial activities; level playing field for all Open data policy has lead to many requests for additional advices & expertise Data services include: historical data (internet); near real-time observations and forecasts (ftp); downscaled climate change projections (internet) National scale - NL

3. WRMA-WMO-World Bank-WFP Expert Meeting, Geneva, Dec. 2007 Data policy and responsibility for high resolution daily historical data remain fragmented Joint ECA database (eca.knmi.nl; near real-time using GTS; 60% public data) EU-Ensembles project: 25-km grids 1950-2006 (research only) Europe

4. WRMA-WMO-World Bank-WFP Expert Meeting, Geneva, Dec. 2007 Established monthly datasets for climate monitoring (climexp.knmi.nl) Global datasets for daily and higher resolution observations largely to be developed Tendency towards integration of different data sources (satellite & in situ, using high resolution reanalysis) Role of WMO-ETCCDI Global