Extending forecasts of global river flow out to seasonal timescales
Rebecca Emerton discusses her work to develop new GloFAS seasonal forecasts of river flow which have the potential to give even earlier warnings of flood and drought risk around the globe.
Extra weather station data improve ECMWF’s forecasts
Accurate and timely weather data from across the globe are crucial for numerical weather prediction. In a welcome development, Ukraine has recently begun to provide additional weather station observations to ECMWF in real time.
Game-changing Climate Data Store launched
Europe’s Climate Data Store (CDS), launched today, is a one-stop-shop for past, present and future climate information. The CDS greatly improves access to climate data and tools, is open and free for all to use, and will change the ways in which society can benefit from Earth observations and climate science.
Diverse project work in focus
Articles in this section present ECMWF’s involvement in diverse areas, including work to monitor the composition of our atmosphere and human CO2 emissions, initiatives to reduce exposure to weather-related disasters, and research into improving energy-efficiency in NWP models.
11 June 2018
Forecast charts and data
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Plot of the week
High-quality weather observations are vital to help initialise forecasts. Earlier this week ECMWF started to assimilate extra weather station data from Ukraine (red dots in the map show the new locations). Watch out for the full story on ECMWF's website on 18 June.
Datasets
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Accessing forecasts
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Advancing weather science
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ECMWF workshops are open to the worldwide meteorological community, though some training is restricted to member states.