Find out how to get ECMWF real-time forecast data.

What do we mean by real-time forecast data?

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how to get real-time forecast data

ECMWF free real-time forecast data and charts

• Access ECMWF open real-time forecast data.
• Real-time forecast , 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?)Forecast charts are free and available to everyone.

Other real-time

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?

forecast data

You can browse real-time forecast data to see what is available, but remember that restrictions apply so you will need to order the data.

Technical set-up for delivery of

real-time forecast data

• Technical set-up for delivery of real-time

• data from ECMWF

Monitoring and changing

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 ...

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

https://apps.ecmwf.int/auth/reset-password/

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?

• How to monitor delivery of your real-time forecast data

• How to change your forecast data requirements

Optional services for real-time forecast data 

ECMWF offers a number of optional services for the delivery of real-time forecast data. 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.

Real-time data format

Find out about data format and how to read your data files.

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 contact our Service Desk servicedesk@ecmwf.int  

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.

Change your real-time data with the Product Requirements Editor (PREd)

Manage your data files on our system with the ECMWF Production Data Store (ECPDS)

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}

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

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. 

• If you hold a licence with one of the Member of Co-operating States, please contact your licence holder who will make the changes.
• If ECMWF is your Licensor,  you can contact us via our portal → choose Existing customers → Question or issues related to an existing Licence

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).