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MACC Products Related to Russian Fires

MACC makes daily estimates of the emission of aerosols from fires detected by satellite measurements of thermal radiation.
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The first TV picture from space?

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.

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The Ensemble of Data assimilations and its use in the EPS

On Tuesday, 22 June 2010, ECMWF implemented an Ensemble of Data Assimilations (EDA). The EDA is designed to provide information about the uncertainty in the analysis of atmospheric observations that provides the starting point for ECMWF's forecasts. In this implementation, the output from the EDA is used to improve the representation of initial-time uncertainty in the forecasts of the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). The result is a more reliable estimation of forecast uncertainty.
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New web products from the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

ECMWF has extended the range of weather forecast products that are available freely and with no restrictions from its website.
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Aksel Wiin-Nielsen passed away

Professor Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, the first Director at ECMWF, sadly passed away on Monday, 26 April 2010.
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Eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland

Links to up-to-date information about the eruption.
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Landmark in forecast performance

In February 2010, ECMWF reached a landmark in the performance of its deterministic forecasting system.
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EUCOS Scientific Advisory Team

The Scientific Advisory Team of EUCOS, the EUMETNET Composite Observing System, met at ECMWF from 2 to 4 March.
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ECMWF corporate video

A corporate video about ECMWF has been made available on the ECMWF public web.
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GEO User Interface Committee meeting hosted at ECMWF

The User Interface Committee of the Group on Earth Observation held its 14th meeting at ECMWF on 2-4 March 2010.
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Horizontal resolution increase

On Tuesday 26 January, ECMWF upgraded the horizontal resolutions of its deterministic forecast and data assimilation systems and the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS), including the weekly extension to 32 days.
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First General Assembly of the MACC project

ECMWF welcomed more than 120 visitors to the First General Assembly of the MACC project.
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Extension of agreement with ESA

In December 2009, the respective Councils of ECMWF and ESA agreed to the extension of the Co-operation Agreement between ECMWF and ESA for another five years.
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The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System

ECMWF has pioneered a system to predict forecast confidence.
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Workshop on "Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the Implications for Predictability"

About 50 leading scientist from outside ECMWF participated in the workshop on "Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the Implications for Predictability", which took place at ECMWF from 9 to 12 November.
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Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems

Nearly 60 participants from 22 different countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas attended the 12th Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems, which took place at ECMWF from 2 to 6 November 2009.
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ECMWF Training programme 2010

ECMWF has an extensive education and training programme to assist Member States, Co-operating States and WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in the training of scientists in numerical weather forecasting, and in making use of the ECMWF computing and archive facilities.

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Annual Report 2008

The ECMWF Annual Report 2008 has been made available online.
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Ocean waves

Prediction of the maximum wave height of extreme events is of tremendous benefit to the marine world.