On October 1, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - the continent's leading weather forecasting agency - announced that it had opened access to real-time data.
The decision is expected to support early warning systems for extreme weather events globally.
As climate change causes extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods and storms to become more frequent and intense, access to quality data is key to risk management efforts.
ECMWF aggregates data collected from 35 countries, mainly in Europe, with 800 million observations per day for weather forecasting and data management. It is considered one of the largest meteorological data archives in the world .
In a bid to boost the move towards open data in several European countries, the ECMWF will provide an unlimited amount of data, around 16 times more than it currently provides. However, for large volume users, data service fees will remain the same.
As the world prepares for the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil next November, supporting developing countries - the most vulnerable to climate change - to access data to improve their response capacity is an urgent requirement.
ECMWF said it would waive service fees for some early warning forecasts for member countries of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The center is also considering applying artificial intelligence (AI) in forecasting to support developing countries, which face many limitations in accessing meteorological data and operating national processing systems./.
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