We are glad to announce the European Weather Cloud service has become operational as of 26 September 2023. The service is now run on fully operational cloud backend services at both ECMWF and EUMETSAT, and can now be used for production-grade, operational workloads.
We are therefore closing a successful pilot phase, where more than 60 different use cases and projects from many countries and organisations have been able to get onboard a preliminary version of the service on both ECMWF and EUMETSAT clouds, and have provided the invaluable feedback that has led us to this day. Most of those tenancies have seamlessly transitioned into the operational phase and will continue to benefit from the service and its resources.
If you are using or plan to use the European Weather Cloud, have a look at our updated Terms and Conditions for the Use of European Weather Cloud Operational Service, as well as EWC service definition to know more about what's on offer.
The service is open for authorised users coming from the European Meteorological Infrastructure, including ECMWF and EUMETSAT, their Member and Cooperating States as well as EUMETNET. Do reach us via the European Weather Cloud Support Portal or get in touch with the corresponding Computing Representative in your Member or Cooperating State. Alternatively, you can also consider applying via ECMWF Special Projects or EUMETSAT R&D calls.
To mark this very important milestone, here are some links on the topic you may also find interesting:
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2023/european-weather-cloud-operational
https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetsat-and-ecmwf-launch-european-weather-cloud
https://stories.ecmwf.int/the-european-weather-cloud/index.html
We are updating our EUMETSAT EWC Morpheus on Wednesday 13 September 15-17 CEST. During the update window, the Morpheus user interface and APIs will not be available. The update does notaffect existing workloads.
This is an announcement for users of the EUMETCast Terrestrial service on the EWC. The EUMETCast Terrestrial service is undergoing a reorganisation on Monday September 11th in order to optimise bandwidth usage. Therefore, from Monday all users can have available a new TER-3 terrestrial service on their Reception station. Data disseminated on this instance is available exclusively on EUMETCast Terrestrial.
Full information on the reorganisation can be found on the official EUMETCast Terrestrial wiki page: https://eumetsatspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DSEC/pages/1989640193/EUMETCast+Terrestrial+Re-organisation
In addition, the EWC confluence page has been updated to provide information on adding the TER-3 instance for users that have a EUMETCast Terrestrial VM deployed in EWC: https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/EWCLOUDKB/How+to+add+an+additional+service
For new users setting up a station on EWC, the EUMETCast Terrestrial over AMT VM available on Morpheus has been updated.
We remain available to offer you all the needed support.