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Reaching out to the Asian meteorology and hydrology community

Erik 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.
Fossil fuel emission maps obtained from global/national inventories

Earth surface processes, human impact and predictability

Gianpaolo 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.
Wildfire

Wildfires – a hazard like no other

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.
Flooding in Europe

Improving forecasts of European flooding

David Lavers talks about his work on extreme precipitation and the development of effective flood forecasting tools.
Meteosat visible channel image showing evening convection over central Africa, 16:00 UTC, 7 May 2016

The complexities of assimilating cloud- and precipitation-sensitive observations

Alan Geer explains how new observations sensitive to cloud and precipitation can improve forecasts.

ERA5: the new reanalysis of weather and climate data

Hans Hersbach talks about ERA5, a new reanalysis of weather and climate to replace ERA-Interim.
Science blog 2017-09-04 - speeding up weather forecasts

Speeding up weather forecasts by using single precision computer calculations

Peter Dueben looks at whether single precision can help to improve our computational efficiency.