News items

A dated record of the project, shown newest first.

• August 2012

  Project extended through July 2014

  In June 2012 the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment granted an extension of DiDaH. The extension involved the completion of the digitization and quality control of the remaining 20 per cent of the historical data, the digitization and quality control of the post 1970 data, and the operation and further development of the Southeast Asian Climate Assessment and Dataset. The data digitized by the project are made available through the SACA&D web pages.

  Extension
• February 2010

  Support from the World Meteorological Organization

  The World Meteorological Organization expressed its support for the DiDaH project in a letter from its Secretary General. The letter is catalogued on the documents page.

  Endorsement
• 7 to 11 December 2009

  Kick off workshop in Bogor

  A workshop was held in Bogor, Indonesia on exploring changes in temperature and precipitation extreme indices for Indonesia and surrounding countries. It formed the kick off for DiDaH, in which BMKG and KNMI would jointly digitize climate data for Indonesia over the following two years. See the photographic record.

  Workshop
• 10 July 2009

  Project agreed and signed in Jakarta

  In Jakarta the DiDaH project was agreed upon and signed by both BMKG and KNMI, formally starting the cooperation described on the project description page.

  Start

Later milestones, including the April 2012 results workshop, are documented on the workshop pages.