The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) activity to coordinate data rescue is an exciting and major step forward in improving the historical datasets that are so vital for assessing and managing the risks from climate change.
In focus
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26 April 2019
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18 March 2019A WMO workshop in February 2019, in which ECMWF participated, examined the requirements for ocean observations, which make a critical contribution to weather forecasts and warning systems.
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2 January 2019ECMWF will be at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona from 6 to 10 January. Find out when our staff are presenting and when they will be available at our booth.
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16 November 2018ECMWF is one of 127 participating organisations which, together with 105 member nations and the European Union, form the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Here we look at GEO’s important work and how ECMWF both benefits and contributes.
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1 October 2018The heatwave of summer 2018 highlighted the skill and value of our extended-range (sub-seasonal) forecasts. Forming part of ECMWF's seamless prediction system, the extended range falls between the medium- and long-range (seasonal) timescales. Forecasts on the extended-range timescale are scientifically challenging, but skill has been increasing steadily.
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23 July 2018Back issues of the ECMWF Newsletter previously only published in paper form are now available in our eLibrary, along with all Newsletter feature articles published since spring 2005.
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14 May 2018A new edition of ECMWF’s user guide is now available online. The ECMWF Forecast User Guide helps forecasters and other meteorologists to make the best use of the forecast products from ECMWF.
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24 April 2018ECMWF and Ecuador’s national hydro-meteorological service, the Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI), have signed a collaborative agreement for data exchange and verification of new post-processed rainfall products (“ecPoint-Rainfall”), with one long-term goal being flood impact mitigation.
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3 April 2018Since its creation, the Centre has owed its leading position to a combination of collaborative principles, top-level scientists and powerful HPC capacities. The opportunity has now arisen for a new Director of Computing to lead ECMWF’s computing efforts.
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6 February 2018ECMWF is providing support for a field campaign over the eastern Pacific called ‘Atmospheric River Reconnaissance’. The campaign is led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes and will run until late February 2018.
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29 January 2018ECMWF’s Graduate Training Programme is an important aspect of our strong scientific cooperation with Member and Co-operating States. Here, three current Graduate Trainees from the national meteorological services of Croatia, Hungary and Serbia talk about their experiences at ECMWF.
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24 November 2017Weather and climate 'dwarfs' designed and implemented in this ECMWF-led project are a major step towards re-structuring existing computational kernels for weather forecasting. They will serve as building blocks for exascale-ready solutions.
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26 October 2017Managed by ECMWF on behalf of the EU, CAMS provides policy makers, businesses, scientists and the general public with reliable information about the composition of our atmosphere and how it is changing.
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13 October 2017To mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we look at how ECMWF collaborates with the WMO to help reduce people’s exposure to weather-related disasters.
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2 October 2017ECMWF is leading a new initiative to explore the development of a European system to monitor human activity related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions across the world.
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1 September 2017Severe flooding along the cross-border Asian rivers of the Ganges and Brahmaputra in July and August this year coincided with tests of new extended-range river discharge forecasts at ECMWF.