We are happy to announce the availability of OPERA weather radar composite in the EWC. The European-wide composite is available in Bufr (2010 onwards) and HDF5 (2012 onwards) formats and contain radar reflectivity, precipitation amount, and 1-hour precipitation accumulation.
The are available in the EWC object storage (S3) buckets and are accessible from the EWC VMs (both EUMETSAT and ECMWF side) without credentials. Please consult https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/EWCLOUDKB/EUMETSAT+-+Data+Access for more details.
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The infrastructure provider of the EUMETSAT side of the EWC announced an upcoming scheduled maintenance window that will be starting on 22nd April 2024 at 20:15 CEST and finishing on 23rd April 2024 at 02:00 CEST, where they will be updating keystone, block storage and nova to improve the system.
During that window, users will not be able to deploy, delete or modify resources using Morpheus. Moreover snapshots (manual or automatic) may fail during the upgrade time window.
On existing running workloads there will be no other impacts and you will still be able to connect to the machines.
In case of any questions or comments, please contact us via the support (https://jira.ecmwf.int/servicedesk/customer/portal/9/) or via Rocket.
For those of you using MARS on the European Weather Cloud, you may be interested to know we have made available an updated MARS client that fully supports the latest additions to our data catalogue, such as the data produced by our new data-driven model AIFS.
As part of this update, we also took the opportunity to harmonise the credential setup process with other ECMWF tools for a more consistent experience. You can now set it up the same way you would do it for the ECMWF Web API client:
- Copy your credentials from https://api.ecmwf.int/v1/key/.
- Paste them in your VM's
~/.ecmwfapircfile. - Start downloading data!
Any new instances on the data layout will already be set up with the new versions. For existing instances, you may need to manually issue an update through the package manager of your operating system to benefit from the changes.
If you had already configured your instance using the legacy method, MARS will continue to work after the update, so no action is needed from your side. However, you will need to use the new method in the future when your current credentials expire, since the old mars command line options --email and --token have been discontinued.
Check out our EWC MARS access page for more information on how to use MARS on the European Weather Cloud.
Dear EWC users !
We are pleased to announce the general availability for EWC users of DNS at both ECMWF and EUMETSAT side of the cloud.
EWC provides DNS to each tenancy and it has the following specifications:
- The DNS record assigned to each machine has the following pattern <machine-name>.<tenancy-name>.<hosting-location>.ewcloud.host where:
- hosting-location: f means an ECMWF-hosted VM and s means a EUMETSAT-hosted VM
- tenancy-name: "mytenant" that you can find from this page Logging in to Morpheus or (only for tenancy admins) go to Administration → Users → Identity Sources
- machine-name: no spaces are allowed in the VM name, if you provision a VM with spaces in the name the record won't be created. Moreover if the name has capital letters, the domain will use lower letters.
- Example: myvm.example_tenancy.s.ewcloud.host
The DNS record is created after provisioning a machine in Morpheus and it is available after some minutes (up to 15 minutes).
If a machine has both private IP and public IP, the public IP will be assigned to the DNS record. If you need the private IP instead, please raise a ticket.
These default DNS names are intended to allow simpler usage when testing or developing. If you wish to run a public-facing service, we recommend additionally using a specific (or your organisation's) DNS domain.
You can find more information on the EWC Knowledge base here: EWC DNS
As always, if you need any support on this, please do get in touch with us on rocketchat or through the European Weather Cloud Support Portal.
Kind regards,
EWC Team
This year's European Weather Cloud (EWC) research and development (R&D) call has been released. Researchers from any publicly funded organisation within a EUMETSAT Member State country can apply for resources for R&D projects to be conducted on the EWC. For further information on this opportunity see: https://user.eumetsat.int/news-events/news/european-weather-cloud-research-and-development-call
To take advantage of the call, applications are due by 30 June 2024, for projects starting in October 2024. There are also opportunities for fast-track access for small projects without strict due date for applications