ECMWF holds two training modules on data assimilation 1 April 2015 How weather forecasting makes use of the millions of observations that are made each day of the atmosphere, oceans and land was the focus of two training modules held at ECMWF in March 2015.
ECMWF opens call for external evaluators for Copernicus tenders 31 March 2015 ECMWF is calling for independent experts in a number of scientific and technical areas to evaluate proposals sent in response to Copernicus ITTs.
Why the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation matters 26 March 2015 The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation was the subject of a workshop in the Canadian city of Victoria from 16 to 18 March. Tim Stockdale, who represented ECMWF at the meeting, explains what the QBO is all about.
Seminar on 'Physical processes in present and future large-scale models' 24 March 2015 The ECMWF 2015 Annual Seminar will take place from 1 to 4 September and focus on the understanding, observation and representation of processes across scales.
ECMWF launches new training module for Metview software 20 March 2015 The redesigned “Data Analysis and Visualisation using Metview” module introduces users to Metview’s tools for accessing, processing and visualising meteorological data.
Stochastic workshop explores simulation of forecast model uncertainty 19 March 2015 ECMWF has hosted a workshop on ‘Stochastic Parametrization’ which reviewed progress in the simulation of uncertainties in forecasting models and examined the scope for further improvements.
El Niño set to strengthen but longer-term trend uncertain 17 March 2015 Weak El Niño conditions observed since October 2014 are expected to strengthen over the next few months and may turn into a substantial event, but there is a great deal of uncertainty beyond June 2015, current forecasts suggest.
Winter newsletter published 12 March 2015 The Winter 2014/15 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.
Climate Data Store workshop “a milestone” for Copernicus climate service 9 March 2015 An international workshop on a planned Climate Data Store hosted by ECMWF last week provided a first opportunity for different stakeholders to discuss the best way forward on the project.
Copernicus workshop looks at Climate Data Store 3 March 2015 ECMWF is hosting an international workshop on a planned Climate Data Store which is to form a key part of the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Piotr Smolarkiewicz granted Poland’s highest academic title 26 February 2015 Dr Piotr Smolarkiewicz, a member of ECMWF’s Research Department, has been made Professor of Physical Sciences by the President of Poland.
Interview with ECMWF Fellow Professor Tilmann Gneiting 23 February 2015 ECMWF Fellow Professor Tilmann Gneiting visited the Centre from 11 to 13 February to discuss recent research into statistical post-processing for numerical weather forecasts.
Visualisation events at ECMWF in 2015 17 February 2015 ECMWF is organising two major events this year looking at different aspects of visualisation in meteorology.
ECMWF forecasts for US east coast snow storm 27 January 2015 - a tale of two cities 2 February 2015 A severe snow storm caused major disruption to parts of the north-east USA on 27 January 2015, with Boston being more affected than New York City.
ECMWF Copernicus Services – Information Day Feb 2nd 23 January 2015 Copernicus is the European Union’s flagship Earth-observation programme.
ECMWF releases global reanalysis data for 2014 16 January 2015 ECMWF has released global reanalysis data for the year 2014 on its public data server.
ECMWF Copernicus Services open for business 9 January 2015 New opportunities to join our Copernicus team or to respond to our ITTs (Invitation To Tender).
ECMWF Copernicus services – Information Day 8 January 2015 Copernicus is the European Union’s flagship Earth-observation programme.
Serbia becomes ECMWF’s 21st Member State 6 January 2015 On 1 January 2015 Serbia officially joined the other 20 Member States of ECMWF.
