Meteosat weather satellite launched 16 July 2015 Europe’s latest weather satellite has gone into orbit after it was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, late on 15 July.
ECMWF presents Copernicus services at Paris climate conference 14 July 2015 ECMWF used the occasion of last week’s conference on 'Our Common Future Under Climate Change' in Paris to explain how it will implement the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services.
How forecasts help astronomers peer deep into space 8 July 2015 ECMWF weather forecasts help one of the world’s top astronomical organisations, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), to fine-tune its telescopes in the quest to explore the outer reaches of the universe.
Advancing training and education in weather prediction 3 July 2015 The 10th Eumetcal workshop, hosted by ECMWF, explored current and future meteorological training requirements and solutions.
Copernicus workshop focuses on climate observations 30 June 2015 ECMWF is hosting an international workshop that will help shape the content of the Climate Data Store.
ECMWF 40th anniversary speakers hail progress in NWP 26 June 2015 Speakers at an event to mark ECMWF’s 40th anniversary noted the “stunning” advances made in numerical weather prediction (NWP) over the last four decades and set out the challenges that lie ahead.
Second EU Earth observation satellite launched 23 June 2015 Sentinel-2A has become the second satellite in the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme to go into orbit.
How to “professionalise” climate change communication 19 June 2015 Expert communicators met in Brussels on 16 and 17 June to look into ways to communicate climate information effectively.
The climate change communication question 16 June 2015 How can we best communicate what we know about climate change? The question matters because there is a broad consensus that climate change is real and has potential impacts on society.
OpenIFS makes “invaluable” contribution to research and training 12 June 2015 Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Helsinki describe OpenIFS, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), as an “invaluable” tool for research and training.
OpenIFS user meeting focuses on uncertainty in NWP 9 June 2015 Users of the OpenIFS model, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System, are meeting at the Centre from 10 to 12 June for a workshop that focuses on uncertainty in numerical weather prediction (NWP).
World Meteorological Organization appoints new Secretary-General 5 June 2015 Petteri Taalas, the Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, has been appointed as the next Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Course probes numerical methods in weather forecasting 2 June 2015 A training course being held at ECMWF from 1 to 5 June delves deep into the methods that lie at the heart of numerical weather prediction (NWP) and Earth-system modelling.
Copernicus Observations Workshop registration still open 27 May 2015 Registration for the Copernicus workshop on Climate Observation Requirements to take place at ECMWF from 29 June to 2 July remains open until 11 June.
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.