FAQ

• How do I get the TIGGE data?
  You can download the TIGGE data via one of the data portals hosted by either ECMWF or CMA, after a simple registration procedure. For further details, see the data access section of the tools page.

• Why can't I download the most recent data?
  Because of the data policy restricting the access to the TIGGE data with a delay of 48 hours after initial time of the forecasts (TIGGE data usage licence)

• How can I use TIGGE  if I can't read GRIB2 format data?
  Several tools are available to convert GRIB2 data to NETCDF, and also to use the data in either the original GRIB2 format or NETCDF - for more information, please see the links on the tools page.

• How to retrieve daily total precipitation?

   One could use Total precipitation archived to get daily total precipitation using forecast initialized at 00 UTC and selecting 24 hour step as shown in the request below:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()
server.retrieve({
    "class": "ti",
    "dataset": "tigge",
    "date": "2019-01-01/to/2019-01-31",
    "expver": "prod",
    "grid": "0.5/0.5",
    "levtype": "sfc",
    "origin": "ecmf",
    "param": "228228",
    "step": "24",
    "time": "00:00:00",
    "type": "fc",
    "target": "output",
})