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ECMWF starts using Chinese satellite data

Chinese satellite data to help further improve ECMWF’s atmospheric analysis
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ECMWF Annual Seminar 2014

Understanding how satellite data contribute to improving numerical weather prediction
PICTURE OF JOHN EYRE

Interview with John Eyre

John Eyre is Met Office Fellow in Satellite Applications and has spent most of his career at the UK Met Office and ECMWF.

Dieter Klaes (EUMETSAT)

Interview with Dieter Klaes (EUMETSAT)

Dieter Klaes leads the Atmospheric Profiling Competence team within the Remote Sensing and Products Division of EUMETSAT. At the seminar he gave a presentation on techniques and processes for pre-launch characterization of new instruments.
Erland Kallen opens the ECMWF Annual Seminar

Erland Källén talks about the 2014 edition of ECMWF Annual seminar

Professor Erland Källén has been Director of Research at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) since 2009.

Annual Seminar 2014

ECMWF Annual Seminar 2014 starts today

ECMWF’s Annual Seminar 2014 starts today and will focus on “Use of Satellite Observations in NWP”.

ECMWF Annual Report 2013 published

The ECMWF Annual Report 2013 is now available. It is structured around the 8 key objectives set out in the Centre's 4-year programme of activities.
HEPEX anniversary workshop attracts over 70 participants

HEPEX marks 10 years of hydrological ensemble forecasting

Since 2004 HEPEX has developed into a broad network of scientists, forecasting groups, and end-users

Tim plamer

ECMWF Fellow receives prestigious Dirac medal

Tim Palmer has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2014 Dirac medal for his work on probabilistic weather and climate prediction.

ECMWF launches new fellowship programme

ECMWF is launching a new fellowship programme to foster collaboration with renowned international scientists. July 2014 marks the start of a three-year tenure for the first ECMWF Fellows: Professor Tilmann Gneiting, Professor Rupert Klein and Professor Tim Palmer.
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ECMWF’s team showcases MACC II’s activities to EU Space Working Party

The European Union Council’s Space Working Party visited EUMETSAT on June 17 for a series of presentations demonstrating the organisation’s central role in bringing data to Copernicus services’ and their end users.

Oceanographers meet at ECMWF for the 2014 WISE meeting

ECMWF hosted the 2014 meeting of the Waves In Shallow water Environment group (WISE), which took place from 8 to 12 June.
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ECMWF's 2014 user meeting: responding to weather forecasting challenges

ECMWF met its data users at the ‘Using ECMWF’s Forecasts’ (UEF2014) meeting from 4 to 6 June 2014.

An international audience of more than 80 professionals from national meteorological services, commercial businesses and international organisations met at ECMWF to learn about new developments, exchange ideas on the use of ECMWF data and share their experiences. For ECMWF, the meeting was a valuable opportunity to gather feedback on its forecast performance and services.

Italian Ambassador visits ECMWF

The Italian Ambassador in London, His Excellency Pasquale Terracciano, and the Scientific attaché, Prof. Roberto di Lauro, were at ECMWF on 6 June 2014. This was the first visit by an Italian Ambassador since ECMWF was established in 1975.

The Director-General, Prof. Alan Thorpe, highlighted the important role of Italy as one of ECMWF’s Member States in providing the resources needed to develop research and operational programmes.
D-Day

ECMWF revisits the meteorology of the D-Day period

Using a modern analysis and forecasting system, ECMWF revisits the meteorology of the D-Day period.
Ocean

NEMO Waves Working Group discusses how to model the interaction between waves and ocean

A meeting of the NEMO Waves Working Group, hosted by ECMWF on 13 and 14 May, brought together the majority of the scientific groups currently active in Europe on wave-ocean modelling.
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Severe floods in the Balkans

Exceptionally intense rainfalls from 13th May onwards following weeks of wet conditions led to disastrous and wide spread flooding in the Balkans, in particular Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Critical flooding was also reported in other countries including Southern Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The events in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia are reported to be the worst since more than 100 years. 44 casualties have been reported so far for both countries, also one person died due to the floods in Croatia and in the Czech Republic.
EGU General Assembly

ECMWF at the EGU General Assembly

Vienna was recently the host of yet another highly successful European Geophysical Union General Assembly from 28 April to 2 May 2014.

This prominent annual event is a collaborative enterprise that brings together geoscientists from all over the world and covers all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. ECMWF was very present, from convening sessions to presenting on a broad spectrum of our work.
Meeting between ECMWF and CMA

Meeting between ECMWF and CMA

Last week saw the first bilateral meeting between the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) since both organisations signed a Co-operation Agreement in early 2014.

The CMA delegation attending the 23–24th April discussion at ECMWF headquarters in Reading included: