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NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction

Harnessing cloud and precipitation satellite data for NWP

ECMWF is co-organizing a workshop on using satellite observations relating to clouds and precipitation in numerical weather prediction (NWP), to be held in the USA in December.

Precipitation plots at different resolutions

Forty years of advancing global numerical weather prediction

Forty years ago a group of European nations resolved to join forces to improve numerical weather prediction. Since then, successive resolution upgrades have helped to greatly improve ECMWF's predictions.

ECMWF Weather Wall

What next for visualisation in numerical weather prediction?

Effective ways to visualise data are essential in numerical weather prediction (NWP). Technological advances offer exciting possibilities, but some things have changed little since the early days of forecasting.

ECMWF Annual Report 2014

ECMWF Annual Report 2014 published

The ECMWF Annual Report 2014 is now available online.

Offshore wind farm

Winds of change for meteorology in the energy sector

The role of meteorology in the energy sector was the subject of an international conference in Boulder, Colorado, in June. David Richardson, who attended the event for ECMWF, explains why the growth in renewable energy is boosting demand for weather prediction across all timescales.

Newsletter 144 cover

Summer newsletter published

The Summer 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.

MSG-4 Meteosat satellite liftoff

Meteosat weather satellite launched

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.

Copernicus balloon over Paris

ECMWF presents Copernicus services at Paris climate conference

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.

ESO telescopes at Paranal

How forecasts help astronomers peer deep into space

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.

Participants at Copernicus workshop June 2015

Copernicus workshop focuses on climate observations

ECMWF is hosting an international workshop that will help shape the content of the Climate Data Store.