Pete,
Thanks for bringing a focus back on this.
As a WMO member nation that contributes a significant amount of weather
observation and resources to the ECMWF (GOES and Polar Satellite, Upper
Air, Surface OBS, etc). I feel like that they should be making available
more than what they are, WMO essential,, which is the same they offer to
North Korea.
Let me know if I can help.
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Pete Pokrandt <poker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All,
>
>
> Back in December or so, ECMWF stopped transmitting the 2.5 deg ECMWF data
> that had previously been available on the HDS data stream. It wasn't nearly
> enough to initialize a model from, or do much analysis, but it was enough
> to get a reasonable comparison of what the ECMWF was doing compared to
> other models.
>
>
> ECMWF currently makes 0.5 degree data for the same products available on
> an ftp server, but there are different tiers of access (
> https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/public-wmo-and-acmad-datasets)
>
>
> The publicly accessible (to anyone) data are severely limited, with
> only Mean sea level pressure, 500 hPa Geopotential height, and 850 hPa
> Temp, and the U and V components of the wind available (along with some
> other similar products based on their Ensemble suite)
>
>
> The WMO members additional products include all of the other fields that
> used to come over the HDS feed at 2.5 deg. These are 850 and 700 hPa
> Relative Humidity, 200, 500, and 700 hPa U and V wind components, 700 hPa
> relative vorticity and divergence, and surface Mean Wave direction, period,
> and significant wave height of combined wind waves and swell (and again
> some stuff based on their Ensemble suite)
>
>
> To access this WMO additional data, a password is required - the web site
> states "To request access, WMO Members should ask their Permanant
> Representative to send an email to The Director General ECMWF DG@xxxxxxxxx
> "
>
> It turns out that our WMO permanent representative is Louis Uccellini,
> Director of the NWS and a UW-Madison alumni that I personally know. I had
> thrown around the idea of reaching out to him to see if I can get a
> password to access the WMO Additional products, but conversations with
> others here at Madison brought up the question.. would it make more sense
> for the Unidata folks to reach out to Louis and see about accessing and
> making the WMO additional data available to the Unidata community (or at
> least those who are members of the WMO.)
>
> Thoughts? Does it make sense for Unidata to try to find a way to make this
> data available on one of our IDD data streams, or should I just go ahead
> and contact Louis and try to get my own access?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
>
>
>
> <http://www.weather.com/tv/shows/wx-geeks/video/the-incredible-shrinking-cold-pool>
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