Upgrade of the HPCF 14 November 2011 ECMWF received the first delivery of nine frames of computer equipment from IBM for the mid-life upgrade of the High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF).
New seasonal forecasting system in operation 11 November 2011 A major upgrade to the ECMWF seasonal forecasting system has been made operational.
MACC-II project gets the go-ahead 27 October 2011 A new phase of funding has been secured until July 2014 for the pre-operational atmospheric monitoring and forecasting service of the European programme Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES).
Extension of the ERA-Interim reanalysis to 1979 15 August 2011 In response to demands from many users, the ERA-Interim reanalysis dataset has been extended by a decade and now includes data from 1 January 1979 to the present.
Jean Labrousse passed away 11 July 2011 Jean Labrousse, the second Director at ECMWF, sadly passed away on Saturday 9 July 2011.
Model uncertainty and error in numerical weather and climate prediction models 27 June 2011 Between 20 and 24 June 2011, a workshop was held at ECMWF on 'Representing Model Uncertainty and Error in Weather and Climate Prediction'.
Outcome of Council's 75th session 20 June 2011 Under the chairmanship of its President, Francois Jacq (France), the Council held its 75th session on 16 and 17 June 2011.
IMO prize to first ECMWF Director 10 June 2011 The 56th IMO prize has been awarded to the late Aksel Wiin-Nielsen as a lifetime achievement award.
ECMWF welcomes Iceland as a Member State 1 June 2011 Today, 1 June 2011, the Republic of Iceland will become ECMWF’s 19th Member State.
A new version of the forecasting system implemented 19 May 2011 A new version of the ECMWF forecasting and analysis system, Cycle 37r2, was implemented on 18 May 2011.
ERA-CLIM kick-off 18 February 2011 The official kick-off meeting for the ERA-CLIM project took place at ECMWF on Wednesday 16 February 2011
Worldwide distribution of ECMWF forecast products 1 February 2011 All ECMWF forecast data and products are developed for and distributed to the ECMWF Member and Co-operating States
ECMWF training courses, workshops and seminars in 2011 10 January 2011 As in past years, ECMWF offers a variety of training courses, workshops and seminars in 2011.
Co-operation agreement with Israel signed. 28 October 2010 On 28 October 2010, Mr Israel Katz, Israeli Minister of Transport and Road Safety, and Mr Dominique Marbouty, Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), signed a co-operation agreement at ECMWF’s headquarters.
Wind stilling over the continents of the Northern Hemisphere 18 October 2010 A study published on 17 October 2010 in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that over the past three decades, surface wind speeds seem to have noticeably decreased in several regions of the world, such as the United States, China, Australia, and in several European countries. Given the often inadequate quality and heterogeneity of wind data measured by anemometers, no long-term study of the evolution of wind speeds on a global scale had been carried out so far. Reanalysis and Climate Service 16 September 2010 The importance of atmospheric reanalysis data for the development of climate services in Europe was highlighted in a keynote address presented by ECMWF to the 10th annual meeting of the European Meteorological Society, held on 13-17 September 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland. Reanalysis confirms record warmth 16 August 2010 Consistent with widespread media reports of extreme heat and adverse impacts in various places, the latest results from ERA-Interim indicate that the average temperature over land areas of the extratropical northern hemisphere reached a new high in July 2010. MACC Products Related to Russian Fires 12 August 2010 MACC makes daily estimates of the emission of aerosols from fires detected by satellite measurements of thermal radiation. The first TV picture from space? 6 August 2010 Comparison with corresponding weather maps produced from the ERA-40 reanalysis has led to confirmation that whilst this image is one of the early pictures from TIROS 1, it is certainly not the first.
Reanalysis and Climate Service 16 September 2010 The importance of atmospheric reanalysis data for the development of climate services in Europe was highlighted in a keynote address presented by ECMWF to the 10th annual meeting of the European Meteorological Society, held on 13-17 September 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Reanalysis confirms record warmth 16 August 2010 Consistent with widespread media reports of extreme heat and adverse impacts in various places, the latest results from ERA-Interim indicate that the average temperature over land areas of the extratropical northern hemisphere reached a new high in July 2010.
MACC Products Related to Russian Fires 12 August 2010 MACC makes daily estimates of the emission of aerosols from fires detected by satellite measurements of thermal radiation.
The first TV picture from space? 6 August 2010 Comparison with corresponding weather maps produced from the ERA-40 reanalysis has led to confirmation that whilst this image is one of the early pictures from TIROS 1, it is certainly not the first.
