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The ECMWF FTP service provides access to real-time data from the CAMS global atmospheric composition system. For product documentation please see here. For a description of the current global model please see here (including information on system upgrades) . For other data access options please see here.

Please see see the list of available atmospheric composition variables below and make sure your variables of interest are available. Please contact us if you require any additional species.

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ecmf is the WMO location indicators. The list can be found here.
yyyymmddhhmmss is the base date and time of the forecast.
vvvv is a version or experiment identifier. prod will be used for operational products, test (or experiment ID) will be used for testing purposes, rean for reanalysis if needed.
tt type of data, fc - forecast, an - analysis
lt is the type of level. pl for pressure level products, sfc for surface fields, ml for model level fields
sss

 is the forecast hour time step. For accumulation and averages, it is the

end time. This number must be zero padded to 3 digits, e.g. step 24 is given as 024

param

 is the parameter short name as defined here

grib, nc

 is the format of a file, GRIB or NETCDF

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