1. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 1 ECMWF DCPC status and plans Baudouin Raoult Head of Meteorological Data Section

2. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 2 ECMWF DCPC - Status Endorsed by CBS (June 2011) GISC: WE-VGISC (West-European VGISC) Metadata available for all essential and additional products

3. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 3 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

4. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 4 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

5. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 5 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)

6. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 6 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…

7. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 7 ECMWF DCPC: Metadata data catalogue GeoNetworks with SRU/Z39.50 support (Search/Retrieve via URL)

8. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 8 ECMWF DCPC: Metadata data catalogue (cont.)

9. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 9 ECMWF DCPC: Metadata data catalogue (cont.)

10. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 10 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, …

11. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 11 ECMWF WMS products in Ninjo (DWD)

12. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 12 ECMWF WMS products in Synopsis (Météo France)

13. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 13 ECMWF WMS products in FlexiWeather (IBL)

14. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 14 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

15. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 15 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

16. ECMWF – DCPC Status and plans© ECMWFSlide 16 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)