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Read in Recommended support checks about hopefully helpful practises used at ECMWF which can be shared. Some examples and source codes are also available there.

Support checks (on provider's end)

Organization	Data acquisition method	Data transfer check	Data delay check	Data completeness check	Data quality check
BoM (ammc)	ftp
CMA (babj)	ftp
CNR-ISAC (isac)	http
CNRM (lfpw)	ecpds (push)
ECCC (cwao)	sftp
ECMWF (ecmf)	MARS retrieval	N/A	YES	YES	YES
HMCR (rums)	ftp	NO	YES	YES	NO
JMA (rjtd)	ftp
KMA (rksl)	ecpds (push, dedicated line)
NCEP (kwbc)	ftp	YES	YES	YES	NO
UKMO (egrr)	ecpds (push, dedicated line)	YES	YES	NO	NO

Data acquisition method: Acquisition method is pull from the provider's location to ECMWF's premises if not specified
Data transfer check: Is the data transfer checked to avoid any technical issues on the way from provider's location to ECMWF's premises? Was the data delivered bit identical?
Data delay check: Is the potential delay of data availability checked on the provider's side?
Data completeness check: Is the data content (number of expected fields; reference field list etc) checked on the provider's side?
Data quality check: Is there any data quality control to avoid e.g. unrealistic parameter values due to interpolation or any other kind of error either scientific or technical?

Support incidents

Number of operational incidents since August 2018

Year	2018
Quarter	Q3	Q4
created	10	11
updated	10	14
closed	5	7

Number of updated incidents includes the newly created or closed ones
Updated or closed incidents may refer to those from previous quarters

The below overview is restricted to user group "ecmwf" only.