ECMWF Newsletter back issues available online 23 July 2018 Back issues of the ECMWF Newsletter previously only published in paper form are now available in our eLibrary, along with all Newsletter feature articles published since spring 2005.
User guide to ECMWF forecast products 14 May 2018 A new edition of ECMWF’s user guide is now available online. The ECMWF Forecast User Guide helps forecasters and other meteorologists to make the best use of the forecast products from ECMWF.
Collaboration with Ecuador related to extreme rainfall and flood risk 24 April 2018 ECMWF and Ecuador’s national hydro-meteorological service, the Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI), have signed a collaborative agreement for data exchange and verification of new post-processed rainfall products (“ecPoint-Rainfall”), with one long-term goal being flood impact mitigation.
Taking ECMWF computing capability forward 3 April 2018 Since its creation, the Centre has owed its leading position to a combination of collaborative principles, top-level scientists and powerful HPC capacities. The opportunity has now arisen for a new Director of Computing to lead ECMWF’s computing efforts.
ECMWF supports atmospheric river reconnaissance flights 6 February 2018 ECMWF is providing support for a field campaign over the eastern Pacific called ‘Atmospheric River Reconnaissance’. The campaign is led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes and will run until late February 2018.
Graduate Training Programme fosters strong links with Member States 29 January 2018 ECMWF’s Graduate Training Programme is an important aspect of our strong scientific cooperation with Member and Co-operating States. Here, three current Graduate Trainees from the national meteorological services of Croatia, Hungary and Serbia talk about their experiences at ECMWF.
The ESCAPE project: towards exascale computing in NWP 24 November 2017 Weather and climate 'dwarfs' designed and implemented in this ECMWF-led project are a major step towards re-structuring existing computational kernels for weather forecasting. They will serve as building blocks for exascale-ready solutions.
The ECMWF Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) – applications and recent improvements 26 October 2017 Managed by ECMWF on behalf of the EU, CAMS provides policy makers, businesses, scientists and the general public with reliable information about the composition of our atmosphere and how it is changing.
Sharing forecasts and knowledge in emergency situations 13 October 2017 To mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we look at how ECMWF collaborates with the WMO to help reduce people’s exposure to weather-related disasters.
Developing a European capacity to monitor worldwide CO2 emissions 2 October 2017 ECMWF is leading a new initiative to explore the development of a European system to monitor human activity related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions across the world.
South Asia floods put new GloFAS river discharge forecasts to the test 1 September 2017 Severe flooding along the cross-border Asian rivers of the Ganges and Brahmaputra in July and August this year coincided with tests of new extended-range river discharge forecasts at ECMWF.
Fact sheet: Ensemble weather forecasting 23 March 2017 An ensemble weather forecast is a set of forecasts that present the range of future weather possibilities. By generating a range of possible outcomes, the method can show how likely different scenarios are in the days ahead, and how long into the future the forecasts are useful.