Use of data accessed via this service

The datasets available via this service are provided freely for Research and Education purposes. Access to this dataset via this service is governed by the ECMWF Terms of Use. Before retrieving data please read the conditions below and acknowledge that you accept them.

Registration will provide you with access to the TIGGE data with a delay of 48 hours after the initial time of the forecasts.

Registration for real-time access is handled by the THORPEX Project Office.

 

Terms of Use

• ECMWF retains all Intellectual Property Rights and copyright over its data.
• ECMWF must be acknowledged (attributed) as the source.
• ECMWF does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
• ECMWF makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of its data products or  the uninterrupted provision of such data products. All data products are provided on an "as is" basis. Any warranty implied by statute or otherwise is hereby excluded to the fullest extent permissible by law.
• ECMWF shall not be liable should ECMWF discontinue the provision of its data products at any time.
• ECMWF shall have no liability in contract, tort or otherwise arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use.
• Users must remove attribution if requested by ECMWF.
• These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
• The parties shall attempt to settle any dispute between them in relation these Terms of Use and any data licensed under these Terms of Use in an amicable manner. If the dispute cannot be so settled, it shall be finally settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce by one or three arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said rules; sitting in London, England. The proceedings shall be in the English language. In accordance with Sections 45 and 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, the right of appeal by either party to the English courts on a question of law arising in the course of any arbitral proceedings or out of an award made in any arbitral proceedings is hereby agreed to be excluded.
• Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed as a waiver of any of the privileges and immunities conferred upon ECMWF by its Member States through its Convention and Protocol on Privileges and Immunities.
• Access to the data products and services may be unavailable, delayed or interrupted. ECMWF will make reasonable efforts to restore the access following the report of a problem, but ECMWF will not be liable for, any unavailability, delay or interruption in access.

Conditions of access for ECMWF contribution to TIGGE:

This data product is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY NC 4.0). To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

You are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

• You must give appropriate credit (attribution) to ECMWF as outlined below, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
• Non-Commercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

The following additional conditions apply: 

1. Research is understood as any project organised by a university, scientific institute or similar (private or institutional), for non-commercial research purposes only. A necessary condition for the recognition of non-commercial purposes is that all the results obtained are openly available at delivery costs only, without any delay linked to commercial objectives, and that the research itself is submitted for open publication.
2. Although every care has been taken in preparing and testing the data, ECMWF cannot guarantee that the data are correct in all circumstances; neither does ECMWF accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use.
3. Any person extracting data from this server will accept responsibility for informing all data users of these conditions.
4. Articles, papers, or written scientific works of any form, based in whole or in part on TIGGE data, will contain an acknowledgement of TIGGE.

The following wording shall be attached to the use of this ECMWF data product, in addition to acknowledging TIGGE: 

1. Copyright statement: Copyright "© [year] European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)".
2. Source www.ecmwf.int
3. Licence Statement: This data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
4. Disclaimer: ECMWF does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
5. Where applicable, an indication if the material has been modified and an indication of previous modifications.

The following wording shall be attached to the services created with this ECMWF data product, in addition to acknowledging TIGGE:

1. Copyright statement: Copyright "This service is based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)".
2. Source www.ecmwf.int
3. Licence Statement: This ECMWF data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
4. Disclaimer: ECMWF does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
5. Where applicable, an indication if the material has been modified and an indication of previous modifications

Conditions of access for non-ECMWF datasets:

1. Data available from this server may be used freely for research only. Commercial use of the data is not allowed.
2. Research is understood as any project organised by a university, scientific institute or similar (private or institutional), for non-commercial research purposes only. A necessary condition for the recognition of non-commercial purposes is that all the results obtained are openly available at delivery costs only, without any delay linked to commercial objectives, and that the research itself is submitted for open publication.
3. Although every care has been taken in preparing and testing the data, ECMWF cannot guarantee that the data are correct in all circumstances; neither does ECMWF accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use.
4. Any person extracting data from this server will accept responsibility for informing all data users of these conditions.
5. Data must not be supplied as a whole or in part to any third party outside your organisation.
6. Articles, papers, or written scientific works of any form, based in whole or in part on TIGGE data, will contain an acknowledgement of TIGGE.

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