Autumn 2023 Newsletter published 20 October 2023 The autumn 2023 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.
Destination Earth to hold second user event in November 16 October 2023 The EU’s Destination Earth initiative, implemented by ECMWF, EUMETSAT and ESA, will hold its second User eXchange meeting on 13–14 November 2023 in Bonn, Germany.
How to optimise the cost and speed of high-performance computing 9 October 2023 Laleh Pouyan tries to minimise the cost while maximising the speed of high-performance computing (HPC) used in weather forecasting. She will present a poster on her work at the ECMWF workshop on HPC in meteorology from 9 to 13 October 2023.
OpenIFS to adopt latest version of the Integrated Forecasting System 2 October 2023 OpenIFS, a supported and easily accessible version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) provided for research and education, is to be upgraded to the latest IFS model cycle by the end of this year.
The European Weather Cloud is operational 26 September 2023 The European Weather Cloud, a distributed cloud computing infrastructure of ECMWF and EUMETSAT providing access to data and other services from the two organisations, becomes operational on 26 September 2023.
Copernicus service backs WMO's Global Greenhouse Gas Watch initiative 19 September 2023 The EU-funded Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), implemented by ECMWF, is working to support a new Global Greenhouse Gas Watch introduced by the World Meteorological Organization.
Annual Seminar on reanalysis shows evolution towards enhanced coupling 13 September 2023 About 100 scientists and students came together from 4 to 8 September 2023 for the Annual Seminar at ECMWF in Reading, UK, to learn about the history and state of the art of Earth system reanalysis activities.
How AI models are transforming weather forecasting: a showcase of data-driven systems 6 September 2023 Developments in machine learning are continuing at breathtaking pace, both inside and outside of weather forecasting. To help assess machine learning weather forecasts from different sources, we now show a range of them in ECMWF’s charts catalogue.
Supporting users of the Copernicus Climate Change Service 4 September 2023 This year’s Annual Seminar is dedicated to a key product from the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service implemented by ECMWF: the reanalysis of past weather and climate. One of the speakers is Chiara Cagnazzo, who supports C3S users from different economic sectors.
News highlights January to July 2023 27 July 2023 ECMWF news highlights in the first seven months of 2023 include a major upgrade of the forecasting system; initiatives to drive forward weather science; and news from the EU-funded services implemented by ECMWF.
Summer 2023 Newsletter published 21 July 2023 The summer 2023 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.
All eyes on high-performance computing in meteorology 18 July 2023 High-performance computing (HPC) in meteorology will include increasingly heterogeneous architectures and align with machine-learning developments, issues at the centre of ECMWF’s 20th Workshop on HPC in Meteorology from 9 to 13 October 2023 in Bologna, Italy.
ECMWF Fellow explores post-processed ensemble forecasts 10 July 2023 Prof. Sándor Baran became an ECMWF Fellow in January 2021. Since then he has worked on post-processing a range of ECMWF ensemble forecasts to increase their skill.
Model upgrade increases skill and unifies medium-range resolutions 27 June 2023 An upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System to Cycle 48r1 on 27 June has substantially improved the skill of the Centre’s weather predictions and has increased the resolution of medium-range ensemble forecasts.
ECMWF Annual Report 2022 available online 19 June 2023 The ECMWF Annual Report 2022 is now available online, reviewing progress towards the goals set out in our ten-year Strategy under the pillars of ‘Science and technology’, ‘Impact’, and ‘Organisation and people’.
Copernicus records first June breach of 1.5°C climate threshold 15 June 2023 The global-mean surface air temperature was more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in early June, which is a first for a summer month, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) implemented by ECMWF has said.
Forecasts show growing El Niño event 12 June 2023 Forecasts assembled by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service implemented by ECMWF predict a growing El Niño event, which is a prolonged period of abnormally high sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Developing an urban scheme for the IFS 30 May 2023 The urban environment will for the first time be considered in ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) from next year. This is important because in cities temperatures are often elevated compared to their surroundings.
Supercomputing and cloud resources available for weather and climate research 22 May 2023 Researchers from any organisation in ECMWF Member States are invited to apply for computing resources as part of the Special Project framework. For projects to start at the beginning of 2024, requests should be submitted before 30 June 2023.
