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Climate Data Store workshop “a milestone” for Copernicus climate service

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

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

Dr Piotr Smolarkiewicz, a member of ECMWF’s Research Department, has been made Professor of Physical Sciences by the President of Poland.

Photo of Professor Tilmann Gneiting

Interview with ECMWF Fellow Professor Tilmann Gneiting

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

ECMWF is organising two major events this year looking at different aspects of visualisation in meteorology.
New York City Snow Storm

ECMWF forecasts for US east coast snow storm 27 January 2015 - a tale of two cities

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.

Copernicus information day

ECMWF Copernicus Services – Information Day Feb 2nd

Copernicus is the European Union’s flagship Earth-observation programme.
2014 temperatures

ECMWF releases global reanalysis data for 2014

ECMWF has released global reanalysis data for the year 2014 on its public data server.
Copernicus open for business

ECMWF Copernicus Services open for business

New opportunities to join our Copernicus team or to respond to our ITTs (Invitation To Tender).
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ECMWF Copernicus services – Information Day

Copernicus is the European Union’s flagship Earth-observation programme.
ECMWF Member States, Serbia

Serbia becomes ECMWF’s 21st Member State

On 1 January 2015 Serbia officially joined the other 20 Member States of ECMWF.
Cover of Newsletter No 141 Autumn 2014

Autumn newsletter published

The Autumn 2014 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.
CHARMe launch meeting and symposium draws to a close

ECMWF hosts CHARMe launch meeting

On 10 and 11 December 2014 ECMWF hosted a meeting where the EU-funded CHARMe project launched its system for sharing information about climate datasets.
Metop satellite

CHARMe set to launch system for collecting and sharing knowledge about climate data

ECMWF is hosting partners from the CHARMe project for their final workshop from 9 to 11 December.
Melting glacier

ECMWF data used in global warming assessment

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) publishes its provisional statement on the status of the global climate in 2014
Era-Clim2 Stijn Vermoote

Interview with Stijn Vermoote

Stijn Vermoote from the European Commission explains how the ERA-CLIM2 project contributes to the Copernicus programme.
Jorg Schulz at Era-Clim2 general assembly 2014

Interview with Jörg Schulz

Dr Jörg Schulz, Climate Service Product Manager at EUMETSAT, talks about developing satellite-based climate data records.
Era-Clim2 Rob Allan

Interview with Rob Allan

Rob Allan, who leads the international ACRE initiative within the Climate Monitoring and Attribution Group of the Met Office, talks about the importance of rescuing historic climate data.
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ECMWF member of EUpolitix.com Forum

ECMWF has become a member of the EUpolitix.com Forum, a new online information service linked to the Intranet systems of the European Commission, Parliament and Council of Ministers .