The ECOMS User Data Gateway: Towards seasonal forecast data provision and research reproducibility in the era of Climate Services

We thank the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program [FP7/2007–2013] under Grant Agreements 308291 (EUPORIAS Project) and 308378 (SPECS Project). This project took advantage of THREDDS Data Server (TDS) software developed by UCAR/Unidata (http://doi.org/10.5065/D6N014KG). We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and comments.

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