ECMWF 40th anniversary speakers hail progress in NWP
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.
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Advancing training and education in weather prediction
The 10th Eumetcal workshop, hosted by ECMWF, explored current and future meteorological training requirements and solutions.
Second EU Earth observation satellite launched
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
Expert communicators met in Brussels on 16 and 17 June to look into ways to communicate climate information effectively.
The climate change communication question
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
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
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
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
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
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.