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Find out how to get ECMWF real-time forecast data.
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| If you are just beginning to explore the products available from ECMWF, the costs and what licence you might need, please start from our forecast charts and data pages. |
What do we mean by real-time forecast data?
Real-time forecast data, or 'valid' data, is all meteorological information in the form of pictures, charts, text or data files for which the verification time is in the future or less than 24 hours ago. This means that it can be used to predict the weather conditions.
Find out what real-time forecast data are available, what they cost and what licence you might need
Explore You can browse real-time forecast data, their costs and licences in the Product Requirements Catalogue or you can browse the web-based catalogue of real-time products (this is sometimes referred to as the 'shopping cart' - which term should be used? Product Requirements Catalogue). OR PEOPLE CAN BROWSE WEB-BASED CATALOGUE OF REAL-TIME PRODUCTS (question from Emma: the licence says 'products', but we're using 'data' and 'products' interchangeably - is this ok?) to see what is available, but remember that restrictions apply so you will need to order the data.
- Real-time forecast Forecast charts are free and available to everyone.
Find out how to order real-time products
Please follow the instructions on our website on how to order real-time products (but this web page doesn't refer to the Product Requirements Catalogue - I believe this page is a legacy page the next one you reference is the correct one!)
I think there is now a new page on ordering here- .
BUT what I think is missing as an explanation of HOW people order the products.
Perhaps the new page 'Purchasing a licence: what happens next? ' belongs here?Find out how to set up delivery of your real-time forecast data
See an overview of the way real-time forecast data are delivered to you.
See technical requirements for delivery of real-time forecast data.
Suggest we take content from the table on this page: Information for ECMWF customers (under Next steps), to create content something like this ...
| Full NMHS/max-charge customers | Standard commercial/standard NMHS customers |
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Technical set-up Our technical team will set up the dissemination of the data based on the information you have provided in the registration form. (There is a registration forms section here, but at what point does a user fill in this registration form - we don't have that as a step above and I am trying to write pages as step by step instructions? - At the moment, when a user has submitted a quote to the PRC, we ask them to then complete the registration form. In future, we hope that the form will be embedded into the PRC.) We will contact you at the email you have given as single point of contact to let you know that the set-up is ready and that the dissemination can start. | Technical set-up Our technical team will set up the dissemination of the data you subscribe based on your licence and the information you have provided in the registration form. (What registration form? Where do people get this registration from? The same as given in the cell to the left) We will contact you at the email you have given as single point of contact to let you know that the set-up is ready and that the dissemination can start. |
User name and password You will or have received an email from ECMWF Service Desk informing you of your user name and one-time password. To reset a password, please enter your email address at following URL | Then what? User name and password??? Nothing. Standard Commercial and Standard NMHS licensees will not receive a user name/password. Only the first row is applicable. So users don't need userid/password to raise Jira ticket below? |
Security token To access ECPDS you will need to use the Security token that has been sent to you, if you haven't received it please use the Support Portal for support | ???? Not applicable to this licence type. |
Find out how to change your real-time forecast data requirements and monitor dissemination
We suggest a table something like the table below (which is based on content in this page: Information for ECMWF customers).
Do WMO countries, other customers categories need to be included?
See the schedule of real-time data dissemination.
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Change your real-time data with the Product Requirements Editor (PREd) |  |  See instructions below about how to make changes. |
Manage your data files on our system with the ECMWF Production Data Store (ECPDS) | | WHAT DO THESE CUSTOMERS DO IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND THEY DON' T GET THEIR DATA? Raise a ticket via the support portal. 24/7 operational support applies to all user types. |
Depending on what type of customer you are, there are some limits to your data dissemination and the number of changes you can make (the information below is based on this page: Information for ECMWF customers)
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| Data Dissemination via ftp/sftp/AmazonS3 | - customisable data delivery | - fixed data delivery |
24/7 data dissemination support | - raise tickets via the support portal for issues with data dissemination | HOW? raise tickets via the support portal for issues with data dissemination |
Up to 100GB daily data volume Every 10GB thereafter up to a maximum of 600 GB (Maximum Product Daily Volume per contract) costs 2,000 EUR/year prorate | | |
Some of the information below is also covered on the website here: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/documentation-and-support/data-delivery/requests-changes-and-technical-support
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Changes to Standard & Research Licence Maximum charge & full NMHS licence holders can make up to 12 changes per contract-year to their data requirements. To propose changes to your requirements, please use the Product Requirements Editor (PREd). Please check our documentation for an introduction to interface features and capabilities. You are entitled to 2 unique configurable ECPDS destinations as part of your Handling Charges. You can purchase up to 8 additional ECPDS destinations at a cost of €14000 per unique configurable destination. Alias destinations (which are an exact replica of your dataset and not configurable) will be charged at €7000 per alias destination. All destinations will contribute to the 100GB per day volume limit. | Changes to Standard & Research Licence Standard Commercial licence holders can make up to 4 changes per contract-year to their data requirements.
You are entitled to 1 ECPDS destination as part of your Handling Charges (KM doesn't understand this - it says above that they don't have access to ECPDS - ECPDS is the interface to access the destination, which is granted to max charge. Could remove the word 'ECPDS' for this one.). You can purchase up to 9 additional unique configurable destinations. The cost of each additional unique configurable destination will be charged at 100% of your contractual Handling Charges (data in each destination cannot be different to that in your contract). Alias destinations (which are an exact replica of your dataset and not configurable) will be charged at 50% of your contractual Handling Charges. |
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