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The European Flood Awareness System held its 10th anniversary user meeting to review its operations ten years after it started its pre-operational service.

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.

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 launched a new model cycle on 12 May bringing a range of improvements to its Integrated Forecasting System (IFS).

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.

A two-day meeting of the EC-Earth consortium hosted by ECMWF has reviewed progress in developing an improved Earth system model for fresh insights into climate change.

ECMWF has held the second in a series of workshops helping to shape the Copernicus Climate Change Service it is implementing on behalf of the EU.

Efforts to prepare forecasting systems for the exascale era of supercomputing receive a boost as the European Commission backs the 4m-euro ESCAPE project coordinated by ECMWF.

ECMWF delegates ran a series of well-attended sessions at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna from 12 to 17 April and used the opportunity to catch up with the work of fellow scientists.

Global temperatures continued to be high in the first quarter of this year after 2014 was one of the warmest years on record.