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Accession agreement between Serbia and ECMWF signed

On 27 September the Director of the Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia (RHMSS) and the Director-General of ECMWF signed the “Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and ECMWF on the accession of the Republic of Serbia to the ECMWF Convention” in Belgrade.
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ECMWF Newsletter – Summer 2013

The summer 2013 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.
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Annual Report 2012

The report presents some of ECMWF’s key activities in 2012. These include the provision of good guidance about extreme weather events, the upgrading of the supercomputer and the growth of the meteorological data archive.
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ECMWF Newsletter – Spring 2013

The spring 2013 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.
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Contract for new high-performance computing facility signed

At its 79th session on 19-20 June 2013, the ECMWF Council authorised the Director-General to enter into a service contract with Cray UK Ltd to replace the High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) at the Centre from mid-2014 onwards. The contract between ECMWF and Cray UK Ltd was signed on 24 June 2013.

Cray will provide a multi-petaflops supercomputing infrastructure at ECMWF designed for operational resiliency featuring two Cray XC30 systems and a multi-petabyte Cray Sonexion storage system.
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Current floods in central Europe

Several days of heavy rain at the end of May and beginning of June led to saturated soils and extreme flooding in central Europe.
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Using ECMWF's forecasts

'Using ECMWF's Forecasts' is an evolution of our long-running series of Forecast Products Users' meetings.
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ECMWF Newsletter – Winter 2013

The winter 2012/13 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.
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Senior appointments at ECMWF

ECMWF is looking to recruit a Director of Operations and a Director of Forecasts.

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ECMWF forecast data for hurricane Sandy available to researchers

ECMWF forecast data for hurricane Sandy is available for free download for research use via the TIGGE archive.
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ECMWF Newsletter – Autumn 2012

The Autumn 2012 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.
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Slovenia becomes ECMWF's 20th Member State

On 1 December 2012, the Republic of Slovenia became ECMWF’s 20th Member State.

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Second weekly run of monthly forecasts

A second weekly run of the ECMWF monthly forecast has been introduced, running every Monday (00 UTC) to provide an update to the main Thursday run.
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European Flood Awareness System operational

The European Commission has announced that as of 26 November 2012 the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) is now fully operational.

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Twenty years of ensemble prediction at ECMWF

ECMWF will celebrate 20 years of operational ensemble prediction at ECMWF on Monday, 3 December 2012.
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ECMWF Web Site Re-design

During 2012/2013, ECMWF is undertaking a significant redesign of its web site.
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2013 Training course programme

ECMWF has an extensive education and training programme to assist Member States and Co-operating States in the training of scientists in numerical weather prediction, and in making use of the ECMWF forecast products and computer facilities.
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ECMWF Newsletter – Summer 2012

The summer 2012 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.
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Arctic sea-ice and poor summer weather

In an interview with the BBC Science Editor David Shukman, research at ECMWF was described regarding the role of Arctic sea-ice anomalies on summer weather in north-west Europe.