In this blog, Dr Frédéric Vitart discusses a book on recent progress and challenges in extended-range forecasting, which he has co-edited with Andrew Robertson (IRI).
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29 January 2019
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18 December 2018Louise Arnal is a scientist with a lifelong love of art. Here she explores the relationship between art and science and talks about her involvement in a number of SciArt projects.
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21 November 2018The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and EUMETSAT have teamed up to produce a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Mark Parrington discusses its production and launch.
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5 November 2018Irina Sandu from ECMWF and Annelize van Niekerk from the UK Met Office discuss their recent work in which kilometre-scale simulations are used to investigate the impact of complex orography on the atmosphere.
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10 October 2018Sami Saarinen, one of the organisers of the 18th Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Meteorology at ECMWF from 24 to 28 September 2018, goes back over some of the highlights from 41 talks, two panel discussions and a vendors' exhibition.
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24 September 2018As ECMWF’s 18th workshop on high performance computing in meteorology gets under way in Reading, Wilco Hazeleger, Director of the Netherlands eScience Center and keynote speaker, shares his excitement about the computational and data challenges ahead for the Earth sciences.
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10 September 2018As ECMWF's first Summer of Weather Code (ESoWC) comes to an end, Julia Wagemann describes how this online collaborative programme is helping ECMWF develop new and innovative software.
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24 August 2018Mark Rodwell discusses innovative diagnostics which are identifying atmospheric flow types that may lead to poor forecast performance. Such diagnostics can help to prioritise modelling efforts on aspects which might be expected to lead to the largest forecasting improvements.
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6 August 2018At ECMWF we are very excited about the prospect of using the novel space-based wind profile information of Aeolus to improve our weather forecasts. We are proud to take a significant role in the operational Ground Segment processing and in the expert teams that will work on achieving a useful wind product.
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16 July 2018The next few years will see a more diverse range of computer architectures and vendors than we’ve enjoyed for over a decade. Simon McIntosh-Smith, a Professor of High Performance Computing from the University of Bristol who collaborates with ECMWF, explains the challenges and opportunities this will bring to the numerical weather forecasting community.
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5 June 2018Rebecca Emerton discusses her work to develop new GloFAS seasonal forecasts of river flow which have the potential to give even earlier warnings of flood and drought risk around the globe.
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15 May 2018As WMO's Year of Polar Prediction gets well under way, Irina Sandu and Peter Bauer discuss the challenges of forecasting in the polar regions and highlight the priorities for ECMWF.
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17 April 2018
The issue of scalability will feature as the headline topic at this year's ECMWF high-performance computing (HPC) workshop in September. Here Peter Bauer, head of ECMWF’s Scalability Programme, talks about what is perhaps the biggest revolution in numerical weather prediction since computer-based forecasts began.
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15 March 2018Erik Andersson, Deputy Director of the Forecast Department, will be presenting ECMWF products and what they can deliver at InterMet Asia, the region's largest assembly of meteorology professionals.
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2 February 2018Gianpaolo Balsamo discusses the importance of two-way coupling between the atmosphere and Earth’s surface, and how humans are altering these interactions. He shares his drive and excitement about bringing recent research developments into operational use.
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5 December 2017Francesca Di Giuseppe discusses some of the unique challenges involved in predicting wildfires and how ECMWF is contributing to European and global fire information systems.
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16 November 2017David Lavers talks about his work on extreme precipitation and the development of effective flood forecasting tools.
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3 November 2017Alan Geer explains how new observations sensitive to cloud and precipitation can improve forecasts.
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3 November 2017