Wildfires – a hazard like no other 05 December 2017 Francesca Di Giuseppe discusses some of the unique challenges involved in predicting wildfires and how ECMWF is contributing to European and global fire information systems.
Improving forecasts of European flooding 16 November 2017 David Lavers talks about his work on extreme precipitation and the development of effective flood forecasting tools.
The complexities of assimilating cloud- and precipitation-sensitive observations 03 November 2017 Alan Geer explains how new observations sensitive to cloud and precipitation can improve forecasts.
ERA5: the new reanalysis of weather and climate data 04 October 2017 Hans Hersbach talks about ERA5, a new reanalysis of weather and climate to replace ERA-Interim.
Speeding up weather forecasts by using single precision computer calculations 04 September 2017 Peter Dueben looks at whether single precision can help to improve our computational efficiency.