ECMWF tools
Data access
- Data portal
The simplest way how to get rather smaller ad hoc data samples (approximately up-to 20 000 retrieved fields per request) - Batch access
The ECMWF access in batch should be used for most common types of work (big data samples retrievals)
Data monitoring
- Visual data quality monitoring
For the purpose of simple visual data quality monitoring some maps and histograms are produced for every forecast date and chosen model outputs (see the link in the Resources section). Only the first perturbed eps member and control forecast (if exists) are monitored at two chosen forecast leading times (0 and the latest available one common for all monitored datasets) - History page
The data gaps caused by any kind of problems can be checked via so called TIGGE-LAM history web page linked in the Resources section.
External tools
- NCAR TIGGE portal
A wide range of tools for manipulating TIGGE data is available there. They include tools from a range of different providers to visualise and manipulate GRIB2 and netcdf data, and to support model validation. - TIGGE Museum
The museum includes a set of scripts to download TIGGE data, and plot it (using GrADS ) in file TIGGE_sample.tar.gz - available directly from here. - Cyclone XML Tools
for use with Cyclone XML data are available from the CAWCR CXML website.
Algorithms for TIGGE diagnostics
Zoltan Toth offers Fortran examples of CAPE and CIN computations performed at NCEP: