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Open Data and Tools from ECMWF and Copernicus

Open Data and Tools from ECMWF and Copernicus

This presentation was given at the World Food Programme's First Global GIS Workshop, which was hosted in October 2019 in Rome.
The presentation gives an overview of open data available from ECMWF and Copernicus and of tools on how to access and process the data.

Julia Wagemann

October 23, 2019
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  1. © ECMWF June 5, 2019
    Open Data
    and tools from
    ECMWF / Copernicus
    Julia Wagemann
    Twitter: @JuliaWagemann
    23 October 2019
    Climate | Air Quality | Flood | Fire
    WFP’s First Global
    GIS workshop

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  2. October 29, 2014
    European Centre for
    Medium-Range Weather
    Forecasts
    ● 24/7 operational service
    ● Research institution
    ● 22 member states | 12 Cooperating States
    ● 2 Copernicus Services
    ○ Climate Change Service (C3S)
    ○ Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
    ● 300+ staff

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  3. CLIMATE
    ERA5 reanalysis
    ● 1979 - almost Near-Real-Time
    ○ (soon from 1950 onwards)
    ● Temporal resolution: hourly
    ● Spatial resolution: ~ 30 km
    (ERA5-Land: 9 km)
    Seasonal forecasts
    ● monthly forecasts up to 6 months
    ahead
    ● Spatial resolution: 10 km

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  4. CAMS reanalysis
    ● 2003 - 2016 (will be
    extended
    ● Spatial resolution: 80
    km
    CAMS Forecasts
    ● 3-hourly forecasts up
    to 5 days in advance
    ● Spatial resolution: 80
    km
    Parameters: Ozone,
    CO2, SO2, NO2, ...
    AIR QUALITY

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  5. Fire danger indices
    ● Fire-Weather Index
    ● Fine Fuel Moisture Code
    ● Duff Moisture Code
    ● Drought Code
    ● Build-Up Index
    ● Initial Spread Index
    ● Daily Severity Rating
    Time period: 1 Jan 1980 - 31 Dec 2018
    Temporal resolution: daily
    Spatial resolution: 80 km
    FIRE DANGER

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  6. October 29, 2014
    FLOOD
    River discharge
    ● GloFAS 30-day forecast
    ○ 1 Jan 2018 - realtime
    ○ Temporal resolution: daily
    ○ Spatial resolution: 10 km
    ● GloFAS 30-day reanalysis
    ○ 1981-2017
    ○ Temporal resolution: daily
    ○ Spatial resolution: 10 km

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  7. October 29, 2014
    ECMWF Web Mapping
    Service (WMS)
    ● 500 hPa Geopotential
    ● 850 hPa temperature
    ● Wind speed at 850 hPa
    ● Mean sea-level
    pressure
    ● ...

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  8. October 29, 2014
    Copernicus
    FULL, FREE and OPEN
    data policy

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  9. October 29, 2014
    Climate
    Data Store
    From a pure download
    system to a cloud-based
    data on-demand system

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  10. October 29, 2014
    Personal space:
    manual
    download
    CDS API:
    programmatic
    download
    CDS Data Access

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  11. October 29, 2014
    7 ERA5 parameters in
    Google Earth Engine
    ● 2m air temperature
    ● 2m dewpoint
    temperature
    ● Total precipitation
    ● 10m u- and
    v-component of wind
    ● Surface pressure
    ● Mean sea-level
    pressure
    Bridging the gap between
    user communities

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  12. October 29, 2014
    CDS Toolbox
    ● Code-editor
    (Python-based)
    ● Example workflows
    ● Direct outputs
    ● Building web
    applications

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  13. October 29, 2014
    Improving data
    ‘accessibility’
    xarray / cfgrib 0.9.7.1
    Magics 1.0.7
    eccodes-python 0.9.2
    metview 1.2.0
    cdsapi 0.2.3
    ecmwf-api-client 1.5.4
    ecmwfr 1.2.1

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  14. October 29, 2014
    Some resources:
    ● Climate Data Store | https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/#!/home
    ● ECMWF Public Datasets | https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/
    ● Global Flood Awareness System | http://www.globalfloods.eu/
    ● Fire danger forecasts | https://zenodo.org/communities/wildfire/
    ● ECMWF WMS Service endpoint |
    http://apps.ecmwf.int/wms/?token=public&request=GetCapabilities&version=
    1.3.1
    ● WEkEO Copernicus Cloud service | https://www.wekeo.eu/

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  15. October 29, 2014
    THANK YOU!
    Questions?

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