ECMWF Climate Data Store (CDS)
Copernicus Climate Change Service portal providing ERA5 reanalysis, seasonal forecasts, CMIP6 projections, hydrology indicators, and hundreds of climate and hydrology datasets with a unified Python API.
cds.climate.copernicus.eu
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Registration Required
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Reanalysis
- Climate Projections
- Seasonal Forecasts
- API
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: Reanalysis
- 02
Future water
Estimate water availability under future scenarios.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
- 02
Emulators
Replace slow model runs with fast ML emulators.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
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