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EUMETSAT

The European 
Weather Cloud

ECMWF and EUMETSAT have joined forces to set up a distributed Cloud Computing infrastructure to serve the European Meteorological Infrastructure and its users.

 

Key benefits for the user

Community for sharing and collaboration

Community for sharing and collaboration

The European Weather Cloud is a hub for the meteorological community with the aim to bring its users together in a common environment to collaborate and share resources.

Data access

Data access

The platform offers optimised access to the data repositories of ECMWF and EUMETSAT.

Computing and storage

Computing and storage

Data proximate cloud computing facilities and storage solutions are provided to boost research, development and operational activities close to ECMWF and EUMETSAT data.

Tools and services

Tools and services

Tools and services are available for the users for the flexible management and orchestration of the cloud resources.

Training and Support

Training and Support

Support services and training resources tailored for the meteorological community guide the user to effectively use the different capabilities of the cloud platform.

Flexible

Flexible

The platform provides users with a possibility to fully and easily tailor the environment for their use case.

Built for

National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in the Member and Co-operating States of ECMWF and EUMETSAT

The service is suitable for carrying out the official duties and research activities of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in the Member and Co-operating States of ECMWF and EUMETSAT.

Researchers in the meteo and climate domain

The platform is available for research in the context of the ECMWF Special Projects and EUMETSAT R&D calls.

European Meteorological Infrastructure (EMI)

The EWC serves joined European initiatives including organisations like EUMETNET.

Operational news

Scheduled maintenance at EUMETSAT side of the EWC on 15 July 2024 11:00-11:30 CEST

Dear all,EUMETSAT side of the EWC announced a maintenance on 15 July 2024 11:00 - 11:30 CEST to improve network...

Enhancing VM Default Setup Security with SSH Key Authentication at EUMETSAT

Dear all, EUMETSAT is improving the security of the default setup and harmonise the service with ECMWF by enforcing SSH...

Update of ECMWF EWC backend - CCI1

ECMWF will upgrade the version of the CCI1 backend powering part of the European Weather Cloud service at ECMWF between...

Important Security Vulnerability RegreSSHion discovered: ACTION REQUIRED

A new critical security vulnerability CVE-2024-6387, code-named as regreSSHion has been discovered affecting many Linux...

Update of ECMWF EWC backend - CCI2

ECMWF will upgrade the version of the CCI2 Openstack backend powering part of the European Weather Cloud service at...

Rocketchat Update on 25 June 2024 at 10:00 AM CET

Dear all , Next week 25 June 2024 we plan to update EWC Rocketchat starting from 10:00 AM CET. The process should take...

UPDATE REQUIRED: End of Life for CentOS Linux 7

Dear all, CentOS Linux 7 will reach end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024. This means machines provisioned with that...

GPU Maintenance session on EWC on Tuesday 14th May

ECMWF will be updating the GPU nodes in the European Weather Cloud (CCI1) on Tuesday 14 May 2024 10:00 UTC. This will...