The European Agrophysical Institute (EAI) was founded in 2013 and is organized as a nonprofit, scientific and education organization. It is registered in Lugano, Switzerland, according to Switzerland  laws.  
The scope of the EAI is focused on agrophysics as an interdisciplinary field of science and technology dealing with the broad spectrum of research areas including, among others: technical physics, mathematical physics, soil physics, atmosphere physics, agronomy, information technology and precision agriculture. The roots of agrophysics are based in Saint Petersburg (Russia) where A.F. Ioffe (1880 - I960) founded the principles of a new branch of natural and agricultural sciences and was the founder in 1932 Agrophysical Research Institute. A long time international activity on agrophysics is organized by efforts of the Institute of Agrophysics (Lublin, Poland), and Agrophysical Research Institute (Saint Petersburg, Russia).

Presented is information on changes in weather and climate extremes, as well as the daily dataset needed to monitor and analyse these extremes. ECA&D was initiated by the ECSN in 1998 and has received financial support from the EUMETNET and the European Commission.