Below are listed some selected Open Climate data and services from both the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) which #OpenDataHack2018 participants may find most useful. Data Samples are also provided.
Good-to-Know: What is the difference between Analysis, Forecast and Reanalysis?An analysis, of the atmospheric conditions, is a blend of observations with a previous forecast. An analysis can only provide instantaneous parameters.
A forecast starts with an analysis at a specific time (the 'initialization time'), and a model computes the atmospheric conditions for many 'forecast steps', at increasing 'validity times', into the future. A forecast can provide instantaneous parameters (e.g. the temperature at the validity times), accumulated parameters (e.g. precipitation in a certain period up to the validity times) and min/max parameters (e.g. min/max of 2 metre temperature in a certain period up to the validity times).
A reanalysis gives a numerical description of the recent climate, produced by combining models with observations. A reanalysis typically extends over several decades or longer, and covers the entire globe from the Earth’s surface to well above the stratosphere. Reanalysis products are used extensively in climate research and services, including for monitoring and comparing current climate conditions with those of the past, identifying the causes of climate variations and change, and preparing climate predictions.
- What is ERA5
- ERA5 documentation
- Download ERA5 data via the Climate Data Store
- ERA5 data samples available HERE in csv format along with README file. Plotting scripts also available HERE.
- End-to-end Demonstrator for improved decision making in the water sector in Europe (EDgE): EDgE is producing a climate information system "Map Viewer" to allow end-users to find, understand and access the range of climatological and hydrological data and indicators.
- Service for Water Indicators in Climate Change Adaption (SWICCA) offers readily available climate-impact data, graphs and maps to speed up the workflow in climate-change adaptation of water management across Europe.
- European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM) is developing a Demonstrator to enable the energy industry and policy makers to assess how well energy supply will meet demand in Europe over different time horizons, focusing on the role climate has on energy supply and demand.
- CLIM4ENERGY provides climate change indicators tailored for the energy sector. The Clim4energy visualization portal is online, in beta-test.
- Wind Storm Information Service (WISC) provides historic storm data over Europe from 1940 onwards through the WISC Portal.
- Average surface air temperature monthly maps:
- Monthly sea-ice maps:
- Monthly summaries of precipitation, relative humidity and soil moisture:
Some C3S Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) available through the Climate Data Store
- All CAMS regional analysis and forecast daily data (archived since 10/2015 and less than 30 days old data, approximately 10km horizontal resolution from surface up to 5000m)
- CAMS regional reanalyses data also available online.
- CAMS regional ensemble data sample at 3000 European locations available here.
- CAMS Global archived analysis and forecast daily data (6 hourly analysis and 3 hourly up-to 5 days forecast data since 05/07/2012, available with a 5-day delay, approximately 40km horizontal resolution (T511 spectral) on 60 vertical levels from the surface up to 0.1 hPa. Full catalogue of species available HERE
- CAMS Global archived reanalysis data (MACC Reanalysis - 2003-2012, approximately 80 km (T255 spectral) on 60 vertical levels from the surface up to 0.1 hPa for the analysed species). Get sample data files HERE (netCDF or GRIB format)
- Solar radiation (2004 - present with up to 2 days delay) - global clear-sky solar irradiance and Meteosat satellite field-of-view coverage total-sky surface solar irradiation. This is a time series service, i.e., for one location per request only. Register to download data HERE.
- Solar radiation data and maps for over Europe (2005-2017)
- Solar radiation data and maps for over Africa (2005-2017)
- GFAS (Global Fire Assimilation System) - Get a data sample using the ECMWF data server web interface:http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/cams-gfas/ - Documentation available HERE.
- CAMS Monitoring Plots
- Near-real-time Analysis and Forecast of reactive gases (C-IFS)
- Forecast of UV Radiation
- Fire Radiative Power (archive)
- GHG forecasts
- Forecast of Aerosols Optical Depth
- MACC Reanalysis Monthly Mean fields
- MACC Reanalysis Monthly Mean Total Columns
What is the CDS Toolbox?
The toolbox is a catalogue of software tools that can be classified as:
- Tools that perform basic operations on data, such as computation of statistics, sub-setting, averaging, value at points, etc
- Workflows that combine the output of tools and feed this as input into other tools to produce derived results
- Applications which are interactive web pages that allow users to interrogate the CDS through parameterisation; applications make use of workflows and selected data and products in the CDS.
The Toolbox is used to create web-based applications that draw on the datasets available in the CDS.
More detailed information about the Toolbox and the CDS in general is available from this ECMWF Newsletter article.
Access the CDS Toolbox HERE (login account required)
The WMS service operated by ECMWF is part of the ecCharts services to provide forecast weather maps to its users. The service is based on an in-house developed Python package translating WMS requests into the internal request to generate maps which is based on the Magics/Metview parameter language. Currently the serviceprovides WMS version 1.1.1 and 1.3.1. Access is controlled through tokens which are restricted to ranges of IP addresses. The token “public” contains, besides selected weather forecast maps and maps from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).
For all CAMS products, please check What data and charts are available through CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service)?
For all C3S products, please check What data and maps are available through C3S (Copernicus Climate Change Service)?
For access to other ECMWF Open Data products, please go here.