Improving cross-border management of floods – 10 years of EFAS 21 May 2015 The European Flood Awareness System held its 10th anniversary user meeting to review its operations ten years after it started its pre-operational service.
Course explores role of physical processes in weather forecasting 18 May 2015 The tricky but crucial question of how to model small-scale physical processes to help produce numerical forecasts is the subject of a training course being run by ECMWF from 11 to 21 May.
Spring newsletter published 15 May 2015 The Spring 2015 issue of the ECMWF Newsletter is now available. As well as news about ECMWF staff and events, it features articles about new developments and the use that can be made of ECMWF products.
ECMWF launches new model cycle 12 May 2015 ECMWF launched a new model cycle on 12 May bringing a range of improvements to its Integrated Forecasting System (IFS).
New database to shed light on sub-seasonal to seasonal predictability 11 May 2015 ECMWF has launched a data portal for sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) weather forecasts to help researchers study predictability on time-scales of up to 60 days.
EC-Earth moves towards improved Earth system model 7 May 2015 A two-day meeting of the EC-Earth consortium hosted by ECMWF has reviewed progress in developing an improved Earth system model for fresh insights into climate change.
Copernicus workshop focuses on climate projections 5 May 2015 ECMWF has held the second in a series of workshops helping to shape the Copernicus Climate Change Service it is implementing on behalf of the EU.
ESCAPE project set to prepare for new era in supercomputing 30 April 2015 Efforts to prepare forecasting systems for the exascale era of supercomputing receive a boost as the European Commission backs the 4m-euro ESCAPE project coordinated by ECMWF.
ECMWF makes its mark at geosciences conference 22 April 2015 ECMWF delegates ran a series of well-attended sessions at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna from 12 to 17 April and used the opportunity to catch up with the work of fellow scientists.
Warm conditions continue into 2015 20 April 2015 Global temperatures continued to be high in the first quarter of this year after 2014 was one of the warmest years on record.
The climate reanalysis data challenge 10 April 2015 Old satellite data contain valuable information on climate change for some essential climate variables. This article presents vital work to preserve and rescue these observations before it is too late.
Invitations to Tender 8 April 2015 ECMWF has published the first four Copernicus Invitations to Tender.
Copernicus Observations Workshop open for registration 2 April 2015 Presenters have until 14 April 2015 to submit their application, while those wishing to attend can apply until 11 June 2015.
ECMWF holds two training modules on data assimilation 1 April 2015 How weather forecasting makes use of the millions of observations that are made each day of the atmosphere, oceans and land was the focus of two training modules held at ECMWF in March 2015.
ECMWF opens call for external evaluators for Copernicus tenders 31 March 2015 ECMWF is calling for independent experts in a number of scientific and technical areas to evaluate proposals sent in response to Copernicus ITTs.
Why the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation matters 26 March 2015 The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation was the subject of a workshop in the Canadian city of Victoria from 16 to 18 March. Tim Stockdale, who represented ECMWF at the meeting, explains what the QBO is all about.
Seminar on 'Physical processes in present and future large-scale models' 24 March 2015 The ECMWF 2015 Annual Seminar will take place from 1 to 4 September and focus on the understanding, observation and representation of processes across scales.
ECMWF launches new training module for Metview software 20 March 2015 The redesigned “Data Analysis and Visualisation using Metview” module introduces users to Metview’s tools for accessing, processing and visualising meteorological data.
Stochastic workshop explores simulation of forecast model uncertainty 19 March 2015 ECMWF has hosted a workshop on ‘Stochastic Parametrization’ which reviewed progress in the simulation of uncertainties in forecasting models and examined the scope for further improvements.