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Understanding Uncertainty in Weather Forecasts

Understanding Uncertainty in Weather Forecasts

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: October 9, 2025

Learn about the main sources of uncertainty in weather forecasting and how they are addressed in early warning systems.

Cloud and precipitation parametrization 2: ice and mixed-phase microphysics

Cloud and precipitation parametrization 2: ice and mixed-phase microphysics

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

This lesson covers key processes in ice and mixed-phase clouds and precipitation, and parametrization uncertainties.

Parametrisation of diabatic processes - Convection in the context of large-scale circulation

Parametrisation of diabatic processes - Convection in the context of large-scale circulation

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

This lesson will take you through what convection is and the phenomena it causes.

Parametrization of diabatic processes - The mass-flux approach and the IFS scheme

Parametrization of diabatic processes - The mass-flux approach and the IFS scheme

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

This lesson looks at the three classes of parametrization schemes and the main characteristics of the IFS scheme.

Cloud and precipitation parametrization 1: overview and warm-phase microphysics

Cloud and precipitation parametrization 1: overview and warm-phase microphysics

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

Explore the key microphysical and warm-phase processes of cloud and precipitation parametrisation and their use in NWP.

Representing model uncertainty with stochastic physics

Representing model uncertainty with stochastic physics

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

Explore sources of uncertainty in NWP and how this is represented in the IFS using stochastic physics.

Parametrisation of diabatic processes - case studies (convection)

Parametrisation of diabatic processes - case studies (convection)

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

Four case studies exploring the conditions that cause deep convection, considering predictability and forecast errors.

An introduction to single-column modelling

An introduction to single-column modelling

Format: Interactive modules (eLearning)
Published: May 15, 2023

How SCM is used to investigate the physical processes of a global model in isolation, its applications and limitations.

ECMWF IFS Cycle 50r1 webinar: Introduction to Cycle 50r1 - 15 September 2025

ECMWF IFS Cycle 50r1 webinar: Introduction to Cycle 50r1 - 15 September 2025

Format: Videos
Published: September 17, 2025
ECMWF’s next scientific model upgrade at the Data Centre in Bologna will be IFS Cycle 50r1. 50r1 brings major changes to...
ECMWF IFS Cycle 49r1 webinar: Data access and format, testing and practicalities - 14 August 2024

ECMWF IFS Cycle 49r1 webinar: Data access and format, testing and practicalities - 14 August 2024

Format: Videos
Published: August 15, 2024
ECMWF’s next scientific model upgrade at the Data Centre in Bologna, IFS Cycle 49r1, is scheduled for November 2024...
ECMWF IFS Cycle 49r1 webinar: Verification, new products and technical aspects - 11 June 2024

ECMWF IFS Cycle 49r1 webinar: Verification, new products and technical aspects - 11 June 2024

Format: Videos
Published: June 12, 2024
ECMWF’s next scientific model upgrade at the Data Centre in Bologna, IFS Cycle 49r1, is scheduled for October 2024...
ECMWF IFS Cycle 48r1 webinar: Introduction to ECMWF model Cycle 48r1 - 2 March 2023

ECMWF IFS Cycle 48r1 webinar: Introduction to ECMWF model Cycle 48r1 - 2 March 2023

Format: Videos
Published: June 10, 2024
ECMWF’s first new scientific model upgrade in the new Data Centre in Bologna, IFS Cycle 48r1, is scheduled for June 2023...