ECMWF corporate video
A corporate video about ECMWF has been made available on the ECMWF public web.
News
EUCOS Scientific Advisory Team
The Scientific Advisory Team of EUCOS, the EUMETNET Composite Observing System, met at ECMWF from 2 to 4 March.
Landmark in forecast performance
In February 2010, ECMWF reached a landmark in the performance of its deterministic forecasting system.
Eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland
Links to up-to-date information about the eruption.
Aksel Wiin-Nielsen passed away
Professor Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, the first Director at ECMWF, sadly passed away on Monday, 26 April 2010.
New web products from the ECMWF ensemble prediction system
ECMWF has extended the range of weather forecast products that are available freely and with no restrictions from its website.
The Ensemble of Data assimilations and its use in the EPS
On Tuesday, 22 June 2010, ECMWF implemented an Ensemble of Data Assimilations (EDA). The EDA is designed to provide information about the uncertainty in the analysis of atmospheric observations that provides the starting point for ECMWF's forecasts. In this implementation, the output from the EDA is used to improve the representation of initial-time uncertainty in the forecasts of the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). The result is a more reliable estimation of forecast uncertainty.
The first TV picture from space?
Comparison with corresponding weather maps produced from the ERA-40 reanalysis has led to confirmation that whilst this image is one of the early pictures from TIROS 1, it is certainly not the first.
MACC Products Related to Russian Fires
MACC makes daily estimates of the emission of aerosols from fires detected by satellite measurements of thermal radiation.
Reanalysis confirms record warmth
Consistent with widespread media reports of extreme heat and adverse impacts in various places, the latest results from ERA-Interim indicate that the average temperature over land areas of the extratropical northern hemisphere reached a new high in July 2010.