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Celebrating the past, present and future at 50th anniversary events in Bologna

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.

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ECMWF makes its entire Real-time Catalogue open to all

ECMWF has made its Real-time Catalogue open, advancing its open data strategy and supporting global efforts to improve early warnings and build resilience.
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ECMWF announces winners of Code for Earth innovation activity

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.
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European collaboration on AI for weather and climate shortlisted for two HPCwire Awards

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.
ECMWF's 50th anniversary image showing flags of participating nation states

Bologna hosts next in series of ECMWF 50th anniversary events

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.

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Reaching JUPITER: ECMWF celebrates the first European exascale supercomputer

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.
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ECMWF at the EMS Annual Meeting 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-July 2025

News highlights January to 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.
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Summer 2025 Newsletter published

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.
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New ECMWF Fellows outline plans for collaborative research

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.
Design of ECMWF's new headquarters building

Work under way on new ECMWF headquarters in Reading, UK

Construction has begun on ECMWF’s new cutting-edge headquarters in Reading, UK, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on 9 July 2025.
Florian Pappenberger

Next Director-General of ECMWF will drive innovation and collaboration across 35 nations

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.
AIFS Ensemble operational

ECMWF’s ensemble AI forecasts become operational

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.
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ECMWF Annual Report 2024 published

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’.
Upgrade of IFS Cycle 50r1 - analysing humidity in the stratosphere

Analysing humidity in the stratosphere improves forecasts

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.
SOFF - Weather and climate data for resilience

Impact experiments support initiative for more weather observations

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.
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ECMWF backs initiative for 10,000 ships to monitor oceans and weather

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.
Tim Hewson and Fatima Pillosu

ECMWF scientists awarded prestigious precipitation research award

ECMWF scientists Tim Hewson and Fatima Pillosu have received the British Royal Meteorological Society’s 2024 Hugh Robert Mill Award for Precipitation Research for their achievements in improving the accuracy of rainfall forecasts.
Fredrik Wetterhall

Moving from flood forecasting scientist to project manager

Fredrik Wetterhall has transitioned from working in flood forecasting, an area that was expanding at ECMWF when he joined in 2011, to leading some of ECMWF’s involvement in external projects.