Autumn 2025 Newsletter published 29 October 2025 The autumn 2025 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 co-leads State of Wildfires 2024–25 report 16 October 2025 ECMWF co-leads and contributes expertise, tools and data to the State of Wildfires report. The report highlights evidence that climate change is intensifying global wildfires, with major impacts on health, ecosystems, and economies.
Celebrating the past, present and future at 50th anniversary events in Bologna 6 October 2025 ECMWF’s 50th anniversary events continued in the historic city of Bologna, Italy, from 15 to 19 September to reflect on achievements, share expertise, and to look to the future of weather forecasting, environmental monitoring and computing.
ECMWF makes its entire Real-time Catalogue open to all 1 October 2025 ECMWF has made its Real-time Catalogue open, advancing its open data strategy and supporting global efforts to improve early warnings and build resilience.
ECMWF announces winners of Code for Earth innovation activity 25 September 2025 The ECMWF Code for Earth programme reaches its Final Day celebration, recognising the participants and ten winning projects which help address challenges in data visualisation, machine learning, and software development.
European collaboration on AI for weather and climate shortlisted for two HPCwire Awards 24 September 2025 European collaboration on artificial intelligence for weather and climate has been recognised with two nominations in this year’s HPCWire Reader’s Choice Awards and voting for the awards is now open.
Bologna hosts next in series of ECMWF 50th anniversary events 15 September 2025 Part of ECMWF’s year of activities for its 50th anniversary takes place this week (15–19 September) in Bologna, Italy, including a series of workshops the launch of a new publication.
Reaching JUPITER: ECMWF celebrates the first European exascale supercomputer 9 September 2025 Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, has gone into operation, marking a significant milestone in high-performance computing for weather and climate research.
ECMWF at the EMS Annual Meeting 2025 5 September 2025 We are participating in the 2025 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society from 7 to 12 September. Find out about our booth and which sessions our staff are involved in as speakers, poster presenters and conveners.
News highlights January to July 2025 25 July 2025 ECMWF news highlights in the first seven months of 2025 include updates on our Integrated Forecasting System and our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System, on initiatives in weather science, and on the EU-funded services implemented by ECMWF.
Summer 2025 Newsletter published 18 July 2025 The summer 2025 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.
New ECMWF Fellows outline plans for collaborative research 14 July 2025 ECMWF has appointed three scientists as new Fellows to collaborate on research projects undertaken at the Centre. They add to five scientists whose Fellowships were renewed or started in 2023.
Work under way on new ECMWF headquarters in Reading, UK 10 July 2025 Construction has begun on ECMWF’s new cutting-edge headquarters in Reading, UK, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on 9 July 2025.
Next Director-General of ECMWF will drive innovation and collaboration across 35 nations 3 July 2025 ECMWF’s Council, representing 35 Member and Co-operating States, has announced the appointment of Dr Florian Pappenberger as the Centre’s next Director-General from 1 January 2026. He will take over the post from Dr Florence Rabier.
ECMWF’s ensemble AI forecasts become operational 1 July 2025 ECMWF has taken the ensemble version of the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today, 1 July 2025, to run side by side with the traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) to advance numerical weather prediction.
ECMWF Annual Report 2024 published 30 June 2025 The ECMWF Annual Report 2024 is now available online, reviewing progress towards the goals set out in our ten-year Strategy under the pillars of ‘Science and technology’, ‘Impact’, and ‘Organisation and people’.
Analysing humidity in the stratosphere improves forecasts 23 June 2025 In the next upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), humidity in the stratosphere will be analysed based on observations to improve the starting conditions of forecasts.
Impact experiments support initiative for more weather observations 16 June 2025 Impact experiments which ECMWF has carried out for the UN’s Systematic Observations Financing Facility have shown that weather forecasts would benefit significantly from more in-situ observations in several countries.
ECMWF backs initiative for 10,000 ships to monitor oceans and weather 13 June 2025 ECMWF is one of the partners in an initiative for 10,000 ships to be equipped for ocean and weather monitoring, launched officially today, 13 June, at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.
