This will be a section shared with all data providers containing progress information etc..

Introduction

The volumes involved in multi-model EPS data are very large, and it is currently impossible to perform research on long time-series without retrieving all the original fields from tape. There is a strong need to have access to such time-series at selected point locations. Typical application locations could be airports, wind farms, official monitoring (observation) stations.

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• A series of scripts must be written that will extract the values for the selected points as the TIGGE data (global and LAM) is received in near-realtime, and the point dataset will be updated accordingly.

• A “back-archive” of point values for the existing TIGGE data. The TIGGE global archive contains data since 2006, representing more than half a Petabyte of data. Re-processing this dataset in order to extract the selected data point will be very expensive, and should be carefully planned. It is clear that this should only be done once, therefore the decisions that have to be taken for this activity (list of geographical locations, data formats, parameters, extraction method, etc.) will have to be confirmed before starting the process.