ECMWF | Reading | 1-4 June 2020
A forum to discuss the use and performance of ECMWF's forecasts and related products
“Using ECMWF’s Forecasts” provides a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences on the use of ECMWF data and products. It is open to all ECMWF forecast users around the world and provides an opportunity to give feedback to ECMWF on forecast performance and on the range of available products, and to learn about ECMWF’s recent developments of its forecasting system.
2020 theme: "Keeping users at the heart of operations”
ECMWF was created over four decades ago with the goal of improving global numerical weather predictions to support its Member and Co-operating States, as well as the broader meteorological communities. ECMWF now provides its users around the world with predictions for days, weeks and seasons ahead at a level of accuracy and reliability second to none. The Centre owes this leading position to a combination of collaborative principles, top-level professionals, powerful HPC capacities and a strong user focus.
During this year’s meeting we explored how end-user needs feed into the operational activities of weather and environmental information providers to deliver added value outputs. We looked at ECMWF processes and how they transform research, technical development and data inputs into desired products or services for its data users in Member and Co-operating states and around the world.
Keeping users at the heart of operations relies on maintaining a 2-way communication between users and data providers. Effective channels to collect feedback and advice are therefore essential to establish such a dialogue. Moreover, the 2-way communication ensures that innovation is relevant and its benefits are passed to users in order to support their ability to provide more accurate environment, weather, water and climate actionable information. Examples of this are research to operations processes that transition from a planning, development and testing phase to implementation and evaluation. The corresponding operations to research process provides feedback on performance and evolving user needs, helping to focus research efforts.
The UEF offered an opportunity for participants to showcase their activities and responses to users’ needs. The meeting also provided a framework where participants were able to share their experiences with ECMWF data and provide feedback on ECMWF products.
UEF2020 focussed on the following thematic areas:
- Research to Operations or Operation to Research: Submissions to this thematic area will provide insights into the processes used to transition from research and development to operational activities and from operations to research.
- Novel products and services: contributions are invited on novel products and services including a description on how user needs guided their development.
- Integrating new products in established processes: submissions to this thematic area will be describing ways in which novel earth system products are integrated in daily routines/procedures.
- User focused planning: contributions are invited on strategies for inclusion of user needs in planning
Presentations and recordings
Monday 1 June 2020
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Welcome from ECMWF Director General |
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ECMWF Product Development |
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ECMWF Future Plans: Reading, Bologna and Global Forecasting |
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Causes of systematic errors in forecasts of near-surface weather parameters and prospects for reducing them |
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Virtual icebreaker |
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ECMWF Forecast Performance |
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Virtual Poster Session A |
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Tuesday 2 June 2020
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"Keeping users at the heart of operations": Introducing the theme |
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Improving the Research to Operations process at ECMWF |
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Linkage from Research to Operational activity |
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Virtual Poster Session B |
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Real-time refinement of ECMWF subseasonal forecast confidence |
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Future French severe weather warnings system |
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Using ECMWF Ensemble Products in Tropical Cyclone Field Program Planning |
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User Voice Corner |
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User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 1 |
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User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 2 |
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User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 4 |
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User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 5 |
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User Voice Corner - Breakout Group 6 |
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Wednesday 3 June 2020
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Welcome from ECMWF Director General (repeat) |
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ECMWF Product Development (repeat) |
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ECMWF Future Plans: Reading, Bologna and Global Forecasting (repeat) |
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Causes of systematic errors forecasts of near-surface weather parameters and prospects for reducing them (repeat) |
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ECMWF Forecast Performance (repeat) |
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Utilising ECMWF seasonal hindcast data from a European windstorm insurance loss perspective |
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Smart Climate Hydropower Tool: An artificial intelligence based service for hydropower production seasonal forecast |
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Towards a sub-seasonal agricultural drought forecast |
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Interactivity with a chance of clouds |
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Market is king: climate services for whom? |
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Radiosonde descent data: quality and next steps |
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Speakers' Corner - Ivan Tsonevsky: Revision of CAPE and CIN parameters provide as a model output from the IFS, Cihan Sahin: Updates to Meteograms, Fernando Prates: Tropical Cyclone Radius, Ivan Tsonevsky: Extended-range products |
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Introduction to reforecasting and extended range forecasts |
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Machine Learning for Weather |
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Thursday 4 June 2020
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Copernicus Services at ECMWF: An Overview |
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Recent activities of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and plans for the next phase |
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CAMS, high-quality information about air composition in support of COVID-19 R&D |
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Forecasting floods and wildfires - overview of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) activities at ECMWF |
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Data-driven climate communication - the example of the European State of the Climate 2019 |
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Developing applications for climate and meteorology in the CDS Toolbox - interactive session |
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Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Sectoral Information System (SIS) |
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Capgemini’s AsSISt airline maintenance service, powered by CAMS |
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ERA5-Land, dedicated land surface reanalysis |
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Concluding remarks and feedback poll |
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Posters
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FloodMage |
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AQCLI: a CLARA Service for Air Quality in future CLImate |
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Towards impact-based warnings |
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IRRICLIME: A Climate Smart Irrigation Tool |
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Clara-PWA: a knowledge service for water management |
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A climate service for small hydropower plants operation and management |
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eGAFOR |
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The Flash Floods Use Case in the “MISTRAL” project: Methodology and Verification |
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Evaluation of GloFAS river discharge reanalysis and forecast skill |
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Virtual Poster Session A |
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Virtual Poster Session B |
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ROAT: Building a climate service as a tool for managing multipurpose reservoirs |
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Development of Global Heatwave Risk Alert using EPS products |
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WRI - A climate service for seasonal and weekly predictions of agricultural irrigation needs |
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Planning and management of solar photovoltaic plants through a climate service |
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Building cloud-based data services to enable earth-science workflows across HPC centres |
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