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Supercomputer efficiency was high on the agenda when ECMWF hosted this year’s Cray User Group (CUG) conference in London from 8 to 12 May.

ECMWF is hosting a meeting of Cray supercomputer users in London from 8 to 12 May. The head of supercomputing at ECMWF, Mike Hawkins, has a special interest in the event.

Presentations by ECMWF staff on a new climate reanalysis that went into production earlier this year caused excitement among fellow scientists attending the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna from 17 to 22 April.

ECMWF’s Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Meteorology takes place from 24 to 28 October 2016 in Reading, UK.

Daniel Jacob from Harvard University and Heini Wernli from ETH Zurich have begun three-year Fellowships to work with ECMWF in the fields of atmospheric composition and dynamic meteorology, respectively.

The Spring 2016 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.

Seventy-eight scientists from 15 countries met at the Centre from 11 to 15 April to discuss how best to deal with uncertainties in the models used in weather and climate forecasting systems.

Linus Magnusson works in the Diagnostics Team at ECMWF. His task: to track down the causes of differences between the Centre’s weather forecasts and observed outcomes.

Registration is now open for ECMWF’s 2016 Annual Seminar. The seminar will explore which Earth system processes we should focus on to further improve atmospheric predictive skill.

Registration is open for the ‘Using ECMWF Forecasts’ meeting, 6 to 9 June 2016.