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ECMWF Graduate Trainees from Croatia, Hungary and Serbia

Graduate Training Programme fosters strong links with Member States

ECMWF’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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The ESCAPE project: towards exascale computing in NWP

Weather 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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The ECMWF Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) – applications and recent improvements

Managed 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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Sharing forecasts and knowledge in emergency situations

To 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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Developing a European capacity to monitor worldwide CO2 emissions

ECMWF 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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South Asia floods put new GloFAS river discharge forecasts to the test

Severe 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.
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Fact sheet: Ensemble weather forecasting

An ensemble weather forecast is a set of forecasts that present the range of future weather possibilities. By generating a range of possible outcomes, the method can show how likely different scenarios are in the days ahead, and how long into the future the forecasts are useful.