Deputy Director of Forecasts
Forecast
Summary:
Umberto Modigliani is the Deputy Director of Forecasts, collaborating closely with the Department Director, contributing to the management of the Forecast Department (~100 staff). The department is responsible for the 24/7 timely production of ECMWF's computer-based forecasts, forecast quality, software development, liaison with forecast users, user support, data sales and software licensing. The department also manages the acquisition, processing and quality control of observations, globally, of the atmosphere and oceans. The job includes many international engagements. His work also includes comprehensive reporting on plans and progress to the formal committees and Council which constitute the ECMWF governance.
Professional interests:
- High performance computing
- Product dissemination and cloud services
- Providing efficient and users' friendly access to large data sets
- User engagement and support
- Medium-range weather forecasting
- Support of time-critical work
- Service management methodologies
- Software lifecycle
- Web documentation and services
Career background:
Professional experience
- Deputy Director of Forecasts, Forecast Department, ECMWF, 2019 - present
- Head of User Support Section, Forecast Department, ECMWF, 2013 - 2019
- Deputy Head of Computer Division, Operations Department, 2010 - 2013
- Head of User Support Section, Operations Department, ECMWF, 1998 - 2013
- Analyst, User Support Section, Operations Department, ECMWF, 1996 - 1998
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Florence and the University of Siena, 1993 - 1996
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Florence, 1995 - 1996
- High School Teacher of Mathematics and Physics, 1993 - 1996
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering, University of Florence (1993), Thesis on "Proving termination of logic programs via equivalent term rewriting systems"
- Laurea (MSc equivalent), Summa cum Laude, in Applied Mathematics, University of Florence (1990). Thesis on "Automated theorem proving of equational theorems by means of rewriting techniques"
- 2025
- Roope Tervo, Joachim Saalmüller, Umberto Modigliani, Vasileios Baousis, Jörg Schulz, Mike Grant, Francesco Murdaca, Xavier Abellan, Roberto Cuccu (January 2025) The European Weather Cloud (EWC) – Collaboration Platform for Meteorological Development from Research to Applications. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15740
- 2024
- (December 2024) Twenty years of the Framework for Member State time-critical applications, ECMWF Newsletter n. 182, pp. 24-32. DOI: 10.21957/p31dmu80sd
- Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Victoria Bennett, Stijn Vermoote (January 2024) Lessons Learned in Opening Access to Numerical Weather Prediction Data: Navigating Complexity, User Expectations, and Outreach and Engagement Challenges, 104th AMS Annual Meeting.
- (July 2024) The European Weather Cloud is now operational, ECMWF Newsletter n. 180, pp. 37-43. DOI: 10.21957/xawe573ul9
- Ilaria Parodi, Ruth Coughlan, Maartje Kuilman, Emma Pidduck, Victoria Bennett, Xiaobo Yang, Umberto Modigliani (August 2024) Uptake of the ECMWF Open Data Programme. DOI: 10.5194/ems2024-749
- Umberto Modigliani (February 2024) ECMWF releases a much larger open dataset.
- 2023
- Tiago Quintino, Umberto Modigliani, Florian Pappenberger, Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut, Simon Smart, James Hawkes, Iain Russell, Laurent Gougeon, Cristiano Zanna, Baudouin Raoult (February 2023) Software Strategy and Roadmap 2023-2027, ECMWF. DOI: 10.21957/c6d7df0322
- Roberto Cuccu, Vasileios Baousis, Umberto Modigliani, Charalampos Kominos, Xavier Abellan, Roope Tervo (May 2023) European Weather Cloud: A community cloud tailored for big Earth modelling and EO data processing. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12539
- Ilaria Parodi, Maartje Kuilman, Emma Pidduck, Victoria Bennett, Xiaobo Yang, Umberto Modigliani (July 2023) Progress on the implementation of the ECMWF Open Data roadmap and its challenges. DOI: 10.5194/ems2023-314
- Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Baudouin Raoult, Milana Vuckovic, Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut (January 2023) The Future of ECMWF Open Data - the Challenges, Progress and Future Plans, 103rd AMS Annual Meeting.
- 2022
- Fredrik Wetterhall, Umberto Modigliani, Milan Dacic, Sari Lappi (March 2022) Lessons learned from developing a multi-model hydrometeorological forecasting system. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-12766
- Pavel Khain, Umberto Modigliani, Bojan Kasic, Alon Shtivelman, Harel Muskatel, Anat Baharad, Leenes Uzan, Elyakom Vadislavsky, Eyal Amitai, Nurit Meir, Vladimir Meerson, Yoav Levi, Nir Stav (April 2022) Israel uses ECMWF supercomputer to advance regional forecasting, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 171, pp. 28-35. DOI: 10.21957/bk22p3fs9d
- Roope Tervo, Joerg Schulz, Joachim Saalmueller, Xavier Abellan, Umberto Modigliani, Vasileios Baousis (June 2022) The European Weather Cloud (EWC) – Collaboration Platform for Meteorological Application Development and Data Processing. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-16
- Fredrik Wetterhall, Umberto Modigliani, Bojan Kasic (January 2022) ECMWF’s support for the SEE-MHEWS-A project, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 170, pp. 15-22. DOI: 10.21957/fb92s3aj7w
- Nils Wedi, Tiago Quintino, Umberto Modigliani, Vasileios Baousis, Thomas Geenen, Irina Sandu, Peter Bauer, Joern Hoffmann, Daniel Thiemert (June 2022) Destination Earth: Digital Twins of the Earth System. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-26
- Fredrik Wetterhall, Umberto Modigliani, Francesca Moschini, Bojan Kasic, Stefano Ferri (June 2022) Creating a coupled multi-model hydrometeorological forecasting and decision support system. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-222
- 2021
- Florence Rabier, Fabio Venuti, Andy Brown, Florian Pappenberger, Jean-Noel Thepaut, Martin Palkovic, Luis Neves, Peter Bauer, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Carlo Buontempo, Isabella Weger, Umberto Modigliani, Matteo dell'Acqua (January 2021) The ECMWF Strategy 2021–30, 101st AMS Annual Meeting.
- (January 2021) Machine learning at ECMWF: A roadmap for the next 10 years. DOI: 10.21957/ge7ckgm
- (June 2021) Making ECMWF Open Data more easily accessible via cloud-based services, []. DOI: 10.5194/ems2021-468
- (June 2021) ECMWF moves to open data, []. DOI: 10.5194/ems2021-312
- (June 2021) South-East European Multi-Hazard Early Warning Advisory System , []. DOI: 10.5194/ems2021-305
- (June 2021) European Weather Cloud at the service of the European Meteorological Infrastructure (EMI) , []. DOI: 10.5194/ems2021-120
- 2020
- (March 2020) Developing a South‐Eastern European Multi‐Hazard Early Warning Advisory System, []. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20645
- Umberto Modigliani (September 2020) Towards free and open weather data for all, The Parliament.
- 2018
- (July 2018) Using ECMWF\textquoterights new ensemble vertical profiles. DOI: 10.21957/83cs60nb21
- Fabio Venuti, Erik Andersson, Umberto Modigliani, Emma Pidduck, Marta Gutierrez, Helene Blanchonnet, Meghan Plumridge (January 2018) The evolution of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts Data Services, Special 98th AMS Annual Meeting, Symposium on Impact-Based Decision Support Services.
- 2017
- (February 2017) The new ECMWF interpolation package MIR. DOI: 10.21957/h20rz8
- 2015
- (February 2015) EMOSLIB. DOI: 10.21957/838jfehob
- 2013
- (April 2013) The ECMWF OpenIFS model, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts.
- 2005
- A. Montani, C. Marsigli, T. Paccagnella, Andre Walser, Manuel Fuentes, D Lucas, Umberto Modigliani (February 2005) The COSMO-LEPS system at ECMWF: present status and plans.
- 2003
- Montani Andrea, Capaldo M., Cesari D., Marsigli Chiara, Modigliani U., Nerozzi Fabrizio, Paccagnella Tiziana, Patruno Paolo, Tibaldi Stefano (January 2003) Operational limited-area ensemble forecasts based on the Lokal Modell, ECMWF Newsletter.
- 2001
- (February 2001) Report on the twelfth meeting of Member State Computing Representatives, 18-19 May 2000. DOI: 10.21957/n1idjkbdg
- 2000
- (July 2000) Bibliography of ECMWF Publications 1975 - 2000. DOI: 10.21957/xputrbq07
- 1999
- (August 1999) Report on the eleventh meeting of Member State Computing Representatives, 19-20 April 1999. DOI: 10.21957/1r7qujp8
- 1996
- (May 1996) A Criterion to Decide the Semantic Matching Problem. DOI: 10.1201/9780203748671-15
- 1994
- Umberto Modigliani (February 1994) Terminazione di programmi logici: una nuova metodologia trasformazionale.
- 1993
- Umberto Modigliani, Angelica Tritzo (September 1993) Programmazione logica a vincoli: un nuovo approccio alla risoluzione di problemi di ricerca operativa, Congresso Annuale Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico (AICA).
- Angelica Tritzo, Umberto Modigliani (September 1993) Programmazione logica a vincoli: un nuovo approccio alla risoluzione di problemi di ricerca operativa, Convegno nazionale Associazione Italiana Ricerca Operativa.
- (February 1993) Termination of Logic Programs via Equivalent Rewrite Systems, Logic Programming, Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 26-29, 1993.
- (February 1993) Proving termination of logic programs by transforming them into equivalent term rewriting systems, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science.
- 1990
- Umberto Modigliani (June 1990) Dimostrazione automatica di teoremi equazionali mediante tecniche di riscrittura.
- (February 1990) An Universal Termination Condition for Solving Goals in Equational Languages, Conditional and Typed Rewriting Systems, 2nd International CTRS Workshop, Montreal, Canada, June 11-14, 1990, Proceedings. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-54317-1\_110