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ECMWF DCPC status and plans

Baudouin RaoultHead of Meteorological Data Section

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ECMWF DCPC - Status

Endorsed by CBS (June 2011) GISC: WE-VGISC (West-European VGISC) Metadata available for all essential and additional products

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ECMWF DCPC: Data available for global exchange

Dataset is agreed by ECMWF Council– Essential

●GH 500, T 850, Wind 850, MSL from deterministic forecasts, as well as EPS means and standard deviations

– Additional●WIND at 200, 500 and 700 hPa, Relative humidity at 850 and 700 hPa●Vorticity Divergence at 700 over the tropics.●Wave products●Probabilities (total precipitations, 10m wind gusts and significant wave

height)●Tropical Cyclone tracks

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ECMWF DCPC: Data available for regional exchange

ACMAD countries– Wind at 925 over Africa– Divergence at 925 and 200 hPa over Africa– 2m temperature, 10m wind and precipitation of Africa

Delivery mechanisms– Data push on GTS– Data available on ECMWF FTP servers– Data distributed by EUMETCAST

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ECMWF DCPC: Data for distribution in area of responsibility

Data restricted to Member States, Cooperating States and licensed Commercial or Research organisations

All ECMWF products are available to all Member States and Cooperating States for their official duties

A Council agreed catalogue of product is available for Commercial and Research users

Data are pushed to the user’s machines Users control their subscription (dissemination requirements)

– Destinations, Back-ups, Priorities, Network (Internet vs. RMDCN)– List of products– Post-processing directives (re-gridding, sub-area extraction)

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ECMWF DCPC: Archive data

All past ECMWF products are available from the archive– Registered users– Data services (Internet and media deliveries)– Public Data servers (selected datasets only)

Data from many EU projects/WMO collaborations– ERA, ENSEMBLES…– TIGGE, YOTC…

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ECMWF DCPC: Metadata data catalogue

GeoNetworks with SRU/Z39.50 support (Search/Retrieve via URL)

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ECMWF DCPC: Metadata data catalogue (cont.)

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ECMWF DCPC: Metadata data catalogue (cont.)

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ECMWF DCPC: New developments

Graphical products using OGC/WMS– WMS1.1– Products are plotted on demand– Access to data value (GetFeatureInfo)– Support for legends– Multiple styles per layers– Formats: PNG, SVG, GIF, PDF, …

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ECMWF WMS products in Ninjo (DWD)

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ECMWF WMS products in Synopsis (Météo France)

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ECMWF WMS products in FlexiWeather (IBL)

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Issues with OGC-WMS

No support for multiple time dimension (e.g. Analysis time vs. Forecast time) Security /access control not part of the standards

– Needs to be solved at Network or HTTP level Handling of date line

– No maps can cross the date line

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ECMWF DCPC: other activities - TIGGE Near real-time exchange of global EPS data over the Internet

– IDD/LDM, FTP, HTTP– 450 TB/day, 1.5 millions fields

10 Data providers 3 Archive Centres Fields in GRIB2 Tropical cyclone tracks in CXML (Cyclone XML)

– CXML

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Current plans

Provide metadata to all partners of the WE-VGISC as soon as required Integrate OpenWIS development into our GeoNetwork environment Provide more metadata (e.g. GMES/MACC)