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.

Transcript

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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