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TIGGE Control Forecasts — pressure levels, 1.5° An automated, growing archive of TIGGE control forecasts (cf) on pressure levels, regridded to 1.5°, from ECMWF, NCEP, and CMA, retrieved from the ECMWF Data Store (ECDS) tigge-forecasts collection. Contents Centres ECMWF, NCEP, CMA Forecast type control forecast (cf) only Variables geopotential height, temperature, specific humidity, u-wind, v-wind Pressure levels 1000, 925, 850, 700, 500, 300… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/yanxingjianken/tigge-cf-pressure.

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TIGGE Control Forecasts — pressure levels, 1.5°

An automated, growing archive of TIGGE control forecasts (cf) on pressure levels, regridded to 1.5°, from ECMWF, NCEP, and CMA, retrieved from the ECMWF Data Store (ECDS) `tigge-forecasts` collection.

Contents

CentresECMWF, NCEP, CMA
Forecast typecontrol forecast (cf) only
Variablesgeopotential height, temperature, specific humidity, u-wind, v-wind
Pressure levels1000, 925, 850, 700, 500, 300, 250, 200 hPa
Init times00 and 12 UTC
Lead times6-hourly, to each centre's max (ECMWF/CMA 360 h, NCEP 384 h)
Grid1.5° regular lat-lon (regular_ll, 240×121; regridded server-side by ECDS)
FormatGRIB2
Coveragelatest (≈48 h behind real time) back to 2010
Layoutorigin=<centre>/year=YYYY/month=MM/tigge_cf_<centre>_<YYYYMMDD>_<HH>z.grib

⚠️ Licence & attribution

Data is governed by the TIGGE licence (rev. 2) and is dual-licensed per originating centre:

CentreSource licence
ECMWFCC BY 4.0
NCEPCC BY 4.0
CMACC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial)

Because CMA data is CC BY-NC 4.0, this combined dataset is released as a whole under CC BY-NC 4.0 — you may not use it for commercial purposes. Attribution to each originating centre is required, and changes (regridding to 1.5°) are indicated here.

Acknowledgement: This dataset is based on TIGGE data. TIGGE (The International Grand Global Ensemble) is an initiative of the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP).

Licence text: <https://ecds.ecmwf.int/licences/tigge-licence>

How it was produced (ECDS tigge-forecasts, one request per centre/date/init)

python
import cdsapi
cdsapi.Client().retrieve("tigge-forecasts", {
    "origin": ["ecmwf"],                       # or "ncep" / "cma"
    "level_type": "pressure",
    "variable": ["geopotential_height", "temperature", "specific_humidity",
                 "u_component_of_wind", "v_component_of_wind"],
    "level_value": ["1000_hpa","925_hpa","850_hpa","700_hpa",
                    "500_hpa","300_hpa","250_hpa","200_hpa"],
    "forecast_type": ["control_forecast"],
    "leadtime_hour": ["0","6", "...", "360"],  # to 384 for NCEP
    "year": ["YYYY"], "month": ["MM"], "day": ["DD"], "time": ["00:00"],
    "data_format": "grib",
    "grid": [1.5, 1.5],                        # server-side regrid to 1.5°
}, "out.grib")

Maintained by an automated pipeline: download → (server-side 1.5° regrid) → upload → wipe local.