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Note
titleERA-Interim production stopped on 31st August 2019

For

the time being and until further notice,

ERA-Interim (1st January 1979 to 31st August 2019)

shall continue to be accessible

access through the ECMWF Web API stopped on 01 June 2023

Its successor ERA5 is now available from the Climate Data Store (CDS) (What are the changes from ERA-Interim to ERA5?) and users are strongly advised to migrate to ERA5 (How to download ERA5).

For those users who still need access to ERA-Interim after 01 June 2023 (subject to further notice), they can do so via the Climate Data Store (CDS) API.


Through systematic increases of computing power, 4-dimensional variational assimilation (4D-Var) became feasible and part of ECMWF operations since 1997, paving the way to base ERA-Interim on 4D-Var (rather than 3D-Var as in ERA-40).

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