Bologna hosts next in series of ECMWF 50th anniversary events 15 September 2025 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.
Reaching JUPITER: ECMWF celebrates the first European exascale supercomputer 9 September 2025 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.
ECMWF at the EMS Annual Meeting 2025 5 September 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 to July 2025 25 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.
Summer 2025 Newsletter published 18 July 2025 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.
New ECMWF Fellows outline plans for collaborative research 14 July 2025 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.
Work under way on new ECMWF headquarters in Reading, UK 10 July 2025 Construction has begun on ECMWF’s new cutting-edge headquarters in Reading, UK, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on 9 July 2025.
Next Director-General of ECMWF will drive innovation and collaboration across 35 nations 3 July 2025 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.
ECMWF’s ensemble AI forecasts become operational 1 July 2025 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.
ECMWF Annual Report 2024 published 30 June 2025 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’.
Analysing humidity in the stratosphere improves forecasts 23 June 2025 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.
Impact experiments support initiative for more weather observations 16 June 2025 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.
ECMWF backs initiative for 10,000 ships to monitor oceans and weather 13 June 2025 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.
ECMWF scientists awarded prestigious precipitation research award 5 June 2025 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.
Moving from flood forecasting scientist to project manager 2 June 2025 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.
ECMWF 50th anniversary events continue in September in Italy 27 May 2025 ECMWF’s year of activities for its 50th anniversary will continue from 15 to 19 September with a series of workshops and meetings to be held in Bologna, Italy.
The AI Weather Quest Testing Period is live 15 May 2025 The AI Weather Quest Testing Period is now officially open. Running from mid-May to mid-August 2025, it gives registered participants a chance to test their models and the submission of forecasts.
Enhancing global flood and drought prediction 13 May 2025 ECMWF is taking a prominent role in the Horizon Europe research project SEED-FD (Strengthening Extreme Events Detection for Floods and Droughts) to improve the global prediction of extreme floods and droughts.
Florence Rabier and Anemoi to receive European Meteorological Society awards 7 May 2025 ECMWF Director-General Florence Rabier and the Anemoi Framework on machine learning, in which ECMWF plays a leading role, will each receive a prestigious award from the European Meteorological Society (EMS).
