EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2022
WEkEO
The European Union’s (EU) Copernicus programme
aims to provide integrated access to its data
and information. To achieve this, EUMETSAT,
together with the European Centre for Medium-
Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the
European Environment Agency and Mercator
Ocean International, the entities entrusted with
implementing the Copernicus Atmosphere, Climate,
Land, and Marine Monitoring Services, have
established the WEkEO Data and Information Access
Service. WEkEO provides easy and transparent
access to data from the Copernicus Sentinel
satellites operated by EUMETSAT and the European
Space Agency (ESA), and data from the Copernicus
services, and offers hosted processing capabilities
close to the data sources.
In 2022, EUMETSAT transitioned from its Copernicus
Online Data Access tool to its new Data Store service.
On 29 September, WEkEO access to EUMETSATprovided
Copernicus data was successfully moved
to the Data Store. This also allowed for the easy
addition of reprocessed Sentinel-6 data to WEkEO.
A use cases section and a Jupyter catalogue
have been added to the WEkEO portal, providing
a user-friendly overview and access to example
applications. All Jupyter notebooks are available
to WEkEO data users for self-learning.
European Weather Cloud
The European Weather Cloud (EWC) is a joint
initiative of EUMETSAT and the ECMWF. The EWC
is set to become the cloud-based collaboration
platform for the development of meteorological
applications and operations in Europe and, as such,
is supporting the digital transformation of Europe’s
meteorological infrastructure. The platform is
dedicated to supporting the national meteorological
and hydrological services in EUMETSAT’s and
the ECMWF’s member states to fulfil their official
duty to protect life and property from impending
meteorological hazards. The EWC made strong
progress in 2022 and agreement was reached
with EUMETSAT’s and the ECMWF’s councils to
commence the operational phase of the initiative
after a joint readiness check in 2023.
In December 2022, the EUMETSAT Council approved
a medium-term resource plan for the EWC for 2023-
2026, including a features development roadmap.
At the end of August 2022, EUMETSAT launched
its first research and development call for the EWC.
After evaluation of the submissions and approval
by EUMETSAT’s Science and Technology Group,
the selected projects will begin in 2023.
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