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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?
, 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. Include Page Real-time forecast data - definition Real-time forecast data - definition
Find out
whathow to get real-time forecast data
ECMWF free real-time forecast data and charts
available, what they cost and what licence you might need- free and available to everyone.
Other real-time forecast data
Real-time forecast charts are free and available to everyoneYou can browse real-time forecast data to see what is available, but remember that restrictions apply so you will need to order the data
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Technical set-up for delivery of real-time forecast data
Monitoring and changing delivery of real-time forecast data
Optional services for real-time
data requirementsOptional services forforecast data
ECMWF offers a number of optional services for the delivery of real-time forecast data
(this section to be finalised with EP). The services available to you depend on the service package you have. Note that the silver package is only available for user who have Volume Band 3 or higher, while the Gold package is only available for users with Volume Band 4 or higher.
Service | What is it for? |
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Office hours support (08:00 - 17:00 UTC) | For any queries regarding your ECMWF data. | Basic, Bronze, Silver, Gold (all) |
24/7 Operational Support | Get contacted by ECMWF operators in case there is an issue with the data dissemination. | Bronze, Silver, Gold |
Access to |
To manage transmission of your real-time forecast data |
Member/Co-op States, max-charge customers, satellite data providers
Silver, Gold |
Access to PREd (Product Requirements Editor) |
Member/Co-op States, max-charge customers
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.
You are entitled to 1 real-time data destination as part of your handling charges.
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.
KM needs to work out what to do with content below - where should it go?
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)
24/7 data dissemination support
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
To change your real-time data requirements. | Silver, Gold | |
More than 1 users under a licence allowed to access PREd and ECPDS | Have multiple users accessing PREd and ECPDS | Gold (max. 2) |
More than one destination on ECPDS | Get data sent to additional hosts | Silver (max. 2), Gold (max. 4) |
Access to MARS | Download archive data | Gold |
Access to ecCharts | Inspect, explore and visualise ECMWF forecast data in an interactive way | Gold |
Parallel/backup hosts | If the primary host fails, a back-up host can be installed to take over | Bronze, Silver, Gold |
Multiple hosts | Get data send to an additional host | Bronze (max. 2), Silver (max. 4), Gold (max. 8) |
Parallel transfers | Parallel transmission of files can prevent backlogs of data accumulating due to slow transfer speeds | Silver (max. 5), Gold (max. 10) |
Directory targetting | To distribute transmitted files to different directories on the receiving system | Gold |
ECPDS - Push delivery mechanism | Get the real-time data pushed to your host | Basic, Bronze, Silver, Gold (all) |
ECPDS - FTP Pull (volume allowed proportionate to volume band) | Pull the data yourself, instead of getting the data pushed to your host | Gold |
ECPDS - Set-up of an alias | Send your real-time data to an additional server | Silver, Gold |
Compression | To reduce the volume of data transmitted | Bronze, Silver, Gold |
Changes to operational data requirements per year implemented by ECMWF Data Support Team | Data Support changes your data requirements | Basic (max. 2), Bronze(max. 4), Silver (max. 2), Gold (max. 4) |
Changes to operational data requirements per year implemented by users themselves | Change your data requirements yourself | Silver (max. 4 or for Maximum Charge users: unlimited) Gold (unlimited) |
ECPDS + PREd configuration changes | Change your configuration on ECPDS or PREd | Basic (max. 2), Bronze (max. 4), Silver (max. 8), Gold (max. 16) |
ECPDS - Key Rotation | Change the keys to your host to improve the security | Silver, Gold |
Test data for cycle upgrades | Get test data from the next cycle of the model | Silver (Delivery under licensee's request) Gold (Operational Delivery by default) |
Dissemination Language Generator | Get your data requirements in MARS language, such that you don't have to figure this out by yourself | Silver, Gold |
Real-time data format
Find out about data format and how to read your data files.
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