On 14 June 2012, ECMWF hosted an event to celebrate NCEP (the National Centers for Environmental Prediction) becoming an associate partner in the EUROSIP multi-model seasonal forecasting project.
To mark NCEP becoming an associate partner in the EUROSIP collaboration, Dr Louis Uccellini (NCEP Director) gave a presentation on "Seasonal prediction at NCEP, and the use of multi-model ensembles".
Dr Tim Stockdale (ECMWF) gave a talk on "Seasonal prediction at ECMWF, and the EUROSIP multi-model system", followed by John Hirst (Chief Executive UK Met Office), Francois Jacq (Président-directeur général Météo-France), and Professor Alan Thorpe (Director-General ECMWF) talking about the value of collaboration with NCEP in extending the EUROSIP system.
Professor Alan Thorpe, Dr Francois Jacq, Dr Louis Uccellini, John Hirst
The EUROSIP multi-model seasonal forecasting system started in 2005, and has so far consisted of data from three independent systems - from ECMWF, the UK Met Office and Météo-France - integrated into a common framework. Now NCEP has become an Associate Partner in the EUROSIP project, allowing NCEP data to be used in the EUROSIP multi-model forecasts, and European model data to be used by NCEP. This partnership enables for the first time, and on both sides of the Atlantic, the creation of operational seasonal forecast products built by merging data from European and American forecast systems.
Product sub-sets from the EUROSIP Multi-model Seasonal Forecasting System are available here.