Presentation of ECMWF

• The history of NWP
• The creation of ECMWF
• The ECMWF forecasting system since 1979 - an overview

The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is the result of more than 100 years of development in dynamic and synoptic meteorology and more than fifty years of development in numerical weather prediction (NWP). This long period has seen times of optimism vary with pessimism, during which a slow but steady improvement of the quality of weather forecasts has been made.