Find out how to get ECMWF real-time forecast data.
| If you are just beginning to explore the products available from ECMWF, the costs and what licence you might need, please start from our forecast charts and data pages. |
What do we mean by real-time forecast data?
Real-time forecast data, or 'valid' data, is all meteorological information in the form of pictures, charts, text or data files for which the verification time is in the future or less than 24 hours ago. This means that it can be used to predict the weather conditions.
Find out what real-time forecast data are available, what they cost and what licence you might need
You can browse real-time forecast data to see what is available, but remember that restrictions apply so you will need to order the data.
- Real-time forecast charts are free and available to everyone.
Technical set-up for delivery of real-time data
Monitoring and changing delivery of real-time data
- How to monitor your real-time data delivery
- How to change your real-time data requirements
Optional real-time data delivery services (this section to be finalised with EP)
| Service | What is it for? | Who is it available to? | What does it cost? |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECPDS (ECMWF Production Data Store) | To manage transmission of your real-time forecast data | Member/Co-op States, max-charge customers, satellite data providers | |
| PREd (Product Requirements Editor) | Member/Co-op States, max-charge customers | ||
| Additional data destinations | Member/Co-op States, max-charge customers | You are entitled to 2 unique configurable ECPDS destinations as part of your Handling Charges. You can purchase up to 8 additional ECPDS destinations at a cost of €14000 per unique configurable destination. Alias destinations (which are an exact replica of your dataset and not configurable) will be charged at €7000 per alias destination. All destinations will contribute to the 100GB per day volume limit. | |
| Standard commercial/standard NMHS customers | You are entitled to 1 real-time data destination as part of your handling charges. You can purchase up to 9 additional unique configurable destinations. The cost of each additional unique configurable destination will be charged at 100% of your contractual handling charges (data in each destination cannot be different to that in your contract). Alias destinations (which are an exact replica of your dataset and not configurable) will be charged at 50% of your contractual handling charges. | ||
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KM needs to work out what to do with content below - where should it go?
Depending on what type of customer you are, there are some limits to your data dissemination and the number of changes you can make (the information below is based on this page: Information for ECMWF customers)
| Full NMHS/max-charge customers | Standard commercial/standard NMHS customers | |
|---|---|---|
| Data Dissemination via ftp/sftp/AmazonS3 |  - customisable data delivery | - fixed data delivery |
24/7 data dissemination support | - raise tickets via the support portal for issues with data dissemination | HOW? raise tickets via the support portal for issues with data dissemination |
Up to 100GB daily data volume Every 10GB thereafter up to a maximum of 600 GB (Maximum Product Daily Volume per contract) costs 2,000 EUR/year prorate | |  |