ERA-15 Project

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12. Data for Research

The analysis and forecast results from ERA production and experimentation are stored, and may be retrieved by internal ECMWF and Member States users using MARS. The Data Services unit provides data for external research scientists. They have already become an important data source for many applications, both internal and external, including most of the potential applications listed in the introduction above.

While the work above gives an introduction to the research made possible through re-analysis, it is really only a beginning. Indeed, there has not been sufficient space here to describe the many additional interesting results emerging both from the Validation Partners, and from other work done within ECMWF.

The ECMWF Data Services provide data from specific data sets within the archive, performing extraction and interpolation where needed, and supplying appropriate software with each order to assist users in decoding the data. Data are supplied in conformance with the ECMWF Council's rules for the provision of data, and charges are made to cover extraction costs. Currently data can be supplied on 8mm Exabyte and 4mm DAT tapes. A brochure describing the services supported for ERA data, and including a set of order forms, is available on request.

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