Using ECMWF’s Forecasts (UEF2024)

A brief snapshot on the latest user-oriented advancements on CAMS and C3S, ranging from developments on ERA6, seasonal forecasts and CO2MVS to the new CDS engine, applications and new training plans.

The National Collaboration Programme (NCP) is a dedicated scheme to support EU Member States and Copernicus Participating States, i.e., Norway, Iceland, and UK in extracting the maximum benefit from Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) and Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) services. The NCP is an initiative of ECMWF, endorsed by the European Commission, and is based on a...

In 2014, ECMWF signed with the European Commission a contribution agreement on the implementation of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring (CAMS) and Climate Change (C3S) monitoring services. For 10 years, now CAMS has been developed under ECMWF supervision to deliver operational forecasts, analyses, and reanalyses of the chemical composition of the atmosphere at the regional and global scales....

ECMWF implements the data dissemination services on behalf of two of the Copernicus services: the Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS). This is done via the Climate Data Store (CDS) and the Atmosphere Data Store (ADS), both of which share a common architecture which is currently being modernised.

The common architecture data store (CADS) is designed as...

ECMWF recognises that open data is an essential tool in contributing to the development of new meteorological methods and analysis. Since 2020, ECMWF has been taking steps towards an open data policy. In 2023, we have seen a significant increase in the user uptake of ECMWF open data.

The data currently released as open data are a subset of ECMWF Real-time catalogue at a 0.25-degree spatial...

ECMWF periodically gives Member and Co-operating States an opportunity to provide formalised feedback on ECMWF products, including verification thereof. This time we delayed sending out the request because of the introduction, in June 2023, of our first model cycle to exploit the new ATOS supercomputer in Bologna - 48r1. This had higher spatial resolution, and a very different configuration...