A new state-of-the-art infrastructure, referred to as the Common Data Store (CDS) Engine, has been developed by ECMWF to host the Climate and Atmospheric Data Stores. All layers of the infrastructure are being modernised: the front-end web interface, the back-end software engine, and the underlying cloud infrastructure hosting the service and core data repositories.
As part of this development, a new data store for the Copernicus Emergency Management Service has been created. The CEMS Early Warning Data Store (EW-DS) will host all the historical and forecast information for floods and forest fires at European and Global levels. CEMS datasets will be migrated to the EW-DS, so users are encouraged to download and test data from the new EW-DS Beta before the system becomes operational from 03 September 2024. The new CEMS Early Warning Data Store Beta (EW-DS Beta) is now live for testing: https://ewds-beta.climate.copernicus.eu/ |
The modernisation of the Data Stores is a journey on which we embarked for the users and with the users. Without your support and your collaboration, this transition would simply not be achievable. We thank you all again for your patience during this significant modernisation of our Data Stores and eagerly await for your constructive feedback via our Support Portal!
ECMWF Single Sign-On (SSO) has been extended to all its platforms including the new CDS, ADS, and EW-DS. SSO allows users to have access to multiple applications by signing in with only one account. It also has other important features in regard to simple management, security, ease of use, and seamlessness.
All users of the new CDS, ADS, and EW-DS will need an ECMWF account. If you already have one, great. If you do not yet have an ECMWF account, please register with ECMWF to get one.
As a consequence of the single sign-on implementation, your current CDS or ADS login credentials will not work on the new CDS, ADS, EW-DS infrastructure, regardless of whether you are currently using the CDS or ADS interactively (e.g. over the web interface) or programmatically (using the API service). A new UserID (ECMWF) and API key will be needed.
Your ECMWF account will only allow you to login to the new CDS/ADS/EW-DS, not onto the current CDS/ADS.
You cannot use your ECMWF account to log in onto the current CDS or current ADS. SSO does not apply to current CDS nor current ADS.
Your existing CDS account will only work in the current CDS, not in EW-DS Beta. You need an ECMWF account to start using EW-DS-Beta.
The CDS Toolbox will be discontinued and is not migrated to the new CDS/EW-DS infrastructure. Support will continue to be provided to CDS Toolbox users until the CDS Toolbox is shut down in September 2024. ECMWF Support will however not be able to help with supporting users migrating their CDS Toolbox workflows onto another programming language/software.
As a consequence of the CDS Toolbox being discontinued, the Viewer tool for the following datasets in the CDS will also be discontinued.
New tool packages will be made available to provide software tools for weather and climate workflows that simplify data access, analysis, visualisation and much more. Please watch the user forum for announcements on this topic in the coming months.
All Climate Data Store Applications will also be retired and no longer available when the current Climate Data Store is shut down in September 2024.
CDS-Beta will have some better performing applications including the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas and Climate Pulse. More applications will be published including new versions of some applications in the legacy CDS e.g. ERA5 explorer, Global temperature trend monitor...
CDS Download servers are all still under the same IP range.
In the CDS-Beta, IP address ranges are:
136.156.136.0/21
136.156.128.0/21
Please send your feedback and/or report any issue/bug you may have encountered while using the new CDS/ADS/EW-DS infrastructure by raising an enquiry ticket through our dedicated Support Portal (ECMWF login required) - make sure you select "Yes" to the question Is this request related to CDS-beta/ADS-beta/CEMS-EW-beta? on the Support Portal request form - this will help the Support team with triaging enquiries more efficiently.