Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2019)

Some days, the atmosphere is less predictable than on average. This is partly because the rate of growth of certainty (the result of Chaos) is dependent on the atmospheric flow itself. For example, moist processes are almost always implicated during investigations of very poor forecasts for Europe (so-called "forecast busts"). These moist processes might be associated with, for example, warm...

ECMWF operates two Copernicus services, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and due to Copernicus’ open data policy, many datasets on climate, air quality, fire, or floods are available free of charge.

However, data accessibility is still one of the biggest obstacles for users of these data. Users face difficulties in downloading...