Special projects

Special Projects are 'experiments or investigations of a scientific or technical nature, undertaken by one or more Member States, likely to be of interest to the general scientific community'. Users within one of ECMWF's Member States may apply for resources as a 'Special Project'.
Project status
Principal Investigator Country, Institution Title Start year Request 1st report 2nd 3rd Final report

Silvestri, L

ITALY
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Numerical modeling of precipitation climatology and its sensitivity to climate change effects on the Apennines mountains 2025

Flaounas, E

GREECE
Hellenic Centrer for Marine Research
Mapping the continuum of cyclone dynamics in the phase space of diabatic and baroclinic forcing 2025

Bellucci, A

ITALY
Italian National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC)
Hydrogen Emission Scenarios to drive Climate Projections for Environmental and RIsk Assessment (HESPERIA) 2025

Storto, A

ITALY
CNR-ISMAR
Enhancing regional and global ocean data assimilation 2025

Schyberg, H

NORWAY
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Regional reanalysis demonstrators for CopernIcus Climate Change Service Evolution 2025

Martin, M L

SPAIN
Universidad de Valladolid
Dynamical and risk assessment analysis under future climate conditions of tropical cyclones impacting the eastern north atlantic 2025

Valero, F

SPAIN
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Severe convective weather phenomena and climate change 2025

Yagüe, C A

SPAIN
University Complutense of Madrid
Simulations of different types of breezes and their interactions 2025

Della Fera, S

ITALY
IFAC-CNR
Exploiting the spectral dimension of outgoing longwave radiation to open a new window on climate model evaluation 2025

Garbero, V

ITALY
Arpa Piemonte
Re-analysis and Re-forecasting of Extreme Weather Events Using the ICON-LAM Model 2025

Matonti, C L

ITALY
DIMEAS, Politecnico di Torino
Climate impacts of space-based geoengineering: EC-Earth simulations for optimal non-uniform radiative forcing by a Planetary Sunshade System 2025

Guedj, S

NORWAY
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Arctic Weather Satellite All-sky Radiance DA Implementation (AWARI) 2025

De Martin, F

ITALY
Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi”, University of Bologna
Downscaled subsampled seasonal predictions of summer temperature in the Greater Alpine region 2025

Riccardo, B

ITALY
RSE S.p.A. Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico
WRF-based high resolution simulations to improve the resilience of the Italian Energy System 2025

Williams, J

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
EC-EARTH-V3 HYWAY 2025

Nolan, P

IRELAND
ICHEC
Enhanced Climate Simulations of the North Atlantic 2025

Ricchi, A

ITALY
University of L’Aquila
Exploiting Coupled, High-resolution modelling to simulate severe mediterranean cyclOgenesES (ECHOES) 2025

O'dea, E

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Improving AMOC Representation in EC-Earth through Enhanced Vertical Coordinate and High-Resolution Nested Domains 2025

van de Berg, W J

NETHERLANDS
Utrecht University
Modelling polar ice sheet climates at UU/IMAU 2025

Kokina, T

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Irish storms: a storyline approach to future post-tropical cyclones 2025

Lenderink, G

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
Future Weather: weather predictions of rainfall extremes in past, present and future climate conditions 2025

Gleeson, E

IRELAND
Met Éireann
IImproving cloud forecasting in HARMONIE-AROME 2025

Nurisso, M

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
Earth system modeling of PaleOClimatic HyperthermALs (EPOCHAL) 2025

Serva, F

ITALY
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Investigating the origin of model biases in the representation of the stratosphere 2025

Cini, M

ITALY
University of Turin & ISAC-CNR
Sampling AMOC tipping events with a rare event algorithm with a low resolution version of state of the art model 2025

Alessandri, A

ITALY
ISAC-CNR
Improve representation of hydrological processes for the next generation of Earth system models 2025

Saraceni M

ITALY
University of Perugia
Exploring high resolution modelling of extreme convective events in the Mediterranean Region with gSAM model 2025

Ventrucci, C

ITALY
University of Bologna
Deep ocean heat uptake on equilibrating time scales (DEEPNESS) 2025

Fischer, C

FRANCE
Météo-France
ACCORD common codes maintenance 2025

Craig, G

GERMANY
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Flow-dependence of the intrinsic predictability limit and its relevance to forecast busts 2025

Sozza, A

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
Machine learning techniques for ocean spin-up acceleration (MARTINI) 2025

Zhang, Q

SWEDEN
Stockholm University
Transient simulations with EC-Earth model for centennial to millennial climate variability study 2025

Fabiano, F

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
HICE - Exploring the potential of high-resolution in climate-ice sheet coupling 2025

Soares, P M

PORTUGAL
Universidade de Lisboa
Integrated Physical Numerical Modelling for Assessing Urban Climate Projections over Southwestern European and Brazilian cities 2025

Lemos, G

PORTUGAL
Universidade de Lisboa
IAMCOAST – IntegrAtive Multivariate Tool for Future Shoreline Evolution and COASTal Flooding Vulnerability Assessments in Portugal 2025

Carrio, D

SPAIN
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Design and Implementation of High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Data Assimilation Systems for rapidly evolving tropical-like cyclones in the Mediterranean region. 2025

Lind, P

SWEDEN
SHMI
NorCP 2nd Phase: A suite of “convection-permitting” regional climate model simulations over the Nordic region 2025

Yang, S

DENMARK
DMI
EC-EARTH4: developing a next-generation European Earth System model based on ECMWF modelling systems 2025

Trombini, I

ITALY
University of Bologna
LIMALOC: Long-term Impact of Meltwater from Antarctica on Large-scale Oceanic Circulations 2025

Cardinali, C

ITALY
CMCC
Towards a land/atmosphere/ocean/ice coupled data assimilation system: 20-year coupled reanalysis with an ensemble Kalman filter to initialise longer time-range forecasts, specifically seasonal forecasts (towards C3S multi-model project) 2025

Tourigny, E.

SPAIN
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Exploring the potential contribution of Land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs) for climate mitigation using the EC-Earth3-CC Earth System Model 2025

Sperati, S

ITALY
Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) SpA
WRF-based high resolution numerical weather simulations to complete the extension of the new Italian Wind Atlas 2025

Im, U

Denmark
Aarhus University
Perturbed Parameter Ensembles using the OpenIFS atmospheric model in frame of the CleanCloud Project 2025

Mahura, A

Finland
University of Helsinki
Enviro-PEEX(Next) on ECMWF: Research and development for seamless modelling of meteorology – atmospheric composition on multi-scales for the Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (PEEX) domain for weather, air quality and climate applications 2025

Denamiel, C

Croatia
Institut Ruđer Bošković
Impact of Climate Change on the Direct Economic Costs of Coastal Hazards: A Meter-Scale Experiment in the Adriatic Basin 2025

Katragkou, E

Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
EURO-CORDEX simulations including land use changes 2025

Capecchi, V

ITALY
Consorzio LaMMA
A high-Resolution Hindcast for the Sahel Region Based on ERA5 data and the MOLOCH model 2025

Dumitrache, R; Minguzzi, E

ITALY
NMA,Romania; ARPAE-SIMC
ICON numerical weather prediction test suite 2024

Ragone, F

BELGIUM
RMI
Simulation of extremes of Arctic sea ice reduction with a rare event algorithm in EC-Earth3 2024

Federico, S

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
Improvement on NWP prediction at the short-range for high impact meteorological events 2024

Bøssing Christensen, O

DENMARK
DMI
EURO-CORDEX2 simulations with Harmonie-Climate downscaling the IPSL GCM 2024

Vacca, A

ITALY
Politecnico di Torino
Impacts of an AMOC collapse on atmospheric circulation in the Euro-Atlantic area 2024

Denamiel, C

CROATIA
Institut Ruđer Bošković
Exploring the potential of uncertainty quantification and machine learning techniques to forecast rare extreme events 2024

Jimènez, M

SPAIN
University of the Balearic Islands
Physical mechanism at a basin scale in complex terrain regions: persistent fog and sea-breeze front propagation 2024

O'Dea, E

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Coupled HCLIM-NEMO regional downscaling simulations for Ireland phase1: Historical comparison with atmosphere only 2024

Dütsch, M

AUSTRIA
University of Vienna
FLEXPART transport simulations and inverse modelling of atmospheric constituents 2024

Gašparac, G

CROATIA
Croatia Control Ltd
Assessment of model responses to emission changes in the frame of the FAIRMODE CT9 platform 2024

Gašparac, G

CROATIA
Croatia Control Ltd
Implementation of a new method for eddy diffusivity parameterisations in WRF-Chem model 2024

Cardoso, R M

PORTUGAL
Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa
Impact of land-use changes on past and future regional climate over the EURO-CORDEX domain 2024

Tourigny, E

SPAIN
BSC, Barcelona
Understanding inter-annual to decadal predictability in the EC-Earth3 model and the potential benefits from perfect initialisation 2024

Schmeits, M J

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
High-resolution data-driven weather forecasts for Western Europe 2024

Semmler, T

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Freshwater influence on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation 2024

Mottram, R

DENMARK
DMI
Sea level rise uncertainties from Ice sheet mass change using machine learning methods and emulation of ice surface processes in Greenland and Antarctica 2024

Stendel, M

DENMARK
DMI
ROPEWALK – Rescuing Old data with People’s Efforts: Weather and climate Archives from LogbooK records 2024

Tian, T

DENMARK
DMI
A new decadal prediction system based on EC-Earth3 2024

Haimberger, L

AUSTRIA
University of Vienna
Applying hydrodynamic constraints to coupled energy budget analysis and to physics-informed machine learning based forecasting 2024

Tojcic, I

CROATIA
Institut Ruđer Bošković
Adriatic Sea Climate: towards kilometre-scale biogeochemical modelling 2024

Doernbrack, A

GERMANY
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
Gravity waves and turbulence in the free atmosphere and the atmospheric boundary layer 2024

Khain, P

GERMANY
Israel Meteorological Service
Coupled climate simulations using the ICON model 2024

van Stratum, B

NETHERLANDS
Wageningen University
Towards a computationally efficient parameterization for surface shortwave 3D radiative effects in cloud resolving models 2024

Joos, H

SWITZERLAND
ETH Zurich
Diabatic processes and their impact on extratropical dynamics and the hydrological cycle 2024

Yang, C

ITALY
Institute of Marine Science, CNR
The Impact of stochastic physics in the North Atlantic Climate 2024

Lembo, V

ITALY
ISAC-CNR
Linear response theory and stochastic parametrizations for the investigation of response and sensitivity: A case study with an intermediate-complexity model 2024

Gonzalez Rouco, J F

SPAIN
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Sensitivity of regional Models to Improved Land-air interactions and External forcings setup: Approaching a "seamless" sTrategy to reduce sYstematic biases in very high-resOlution climate simUlations (SmileAtYou) 2024

Ermis, S

UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford
Towards an operational service for extreme weather attribution and projection 2024

Cini, M

ITALY
ISAC-CNR
Sampling AMOC tipping events with a rare event algorithm with a low resolution version of EC-Earth4 2024

Trombini, I

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
Tipping points of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in EC-Earth-PISM 2024

Myriokefalitakis, S

GREECE
National Observatory of Athens
EC-Earth Atmospheric Composition developments 2024

Jing Tang

Denmark
University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
Quantifying biosphere-atmosphere interactions: the impacts from vegetation volatile emissions, plant phenology and lake greenhouse gas emissions 2024

Monge-Sanz, B

UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford
Alternative schemes to accelerate seamless weather prediction 2023

Wright, M

UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford
Investigating multi-decadal climate variations in seasonal forecasts: The role of aerosol and greenhouse gas forcings 2023

Dong, B

UNITED KINGDOM
Reading University
Improving the ORAS5 Global Ocean Reanalysis using a Smoother Algorithm 2023

Christensen, H

UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford
Speeding up ocean spin-up using stochastic parametrizations 2023

May, W

SWEDEN
University Lund
The role of forest management and land-use changes for anthropogenic climate forcing 2023

Garcia Bustamante, E

SPAIN
CIEMAT
Sensitivity of regional climate models to improved soil thermo-hydrodynamics and land-air interactions: impacts on future climate and renewable energy resources over the EURO CORDEX domain 2023

Onvlee, J

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
HIRLAM-C special project phase 4 2023

Milelli, M

ITALY
CIMA Foundation
Intensive test of ICON-LAM Model with urban parametrization scheme TERRA_URB 2023

Cherchi, A

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
Investigations of climate change in post-CMIP6 EC-Earth3 simulations over the Mediterranean Climate Regions 2023

Bertotti, L

ITALY
ISMAR-CNR
The role of orography and model resolution in the underestimate of model offshore blowing winds 2023

Bellomo, K

ITALY
Polytechnic University of Turin
Mechanisms and impacts of an abrupt decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) strength 2023

Avolio, E

ITALY
ISAC-CNR
Regional climate simulations over Italy: A focus on future extreme weather events (ROULETTE) 2023

Clancy, C

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Forecasting at sub-kilometre resolution with the HARMONIE-AROME model 2023

Flaounas, E

GREECE
Hellenic Center for Marine Research
Understanding dynamics and impacts of cyclone systems through a comprehensive dataset of convection-permitting simulations 2023

Irrmann, G

FRANCE
Atos - IPSL
Testing Ocean Modelling Software NEMO new communication patterns 2023

Mottram, R

DENMARK
DMI
Antarctic regional climate modelling: developing and running the HCLIM Polar High Resolution Regional Climate Model 2023

Lagasio, M

ITALY
CIMA Research Foundation
MAGDA - Meteorological Assimilation from Galileo and Drones for Agriculture 2023

Stocchi, P

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
High resolution (1.8 km) atmospheric reanalysis, obtained by dynamically downscaling ERA5 reanalysis with the Italian convection permitting meteorological model MOLOCH 2023

Tourigny, E

SPAIN
BSC, Barcelona
OpenIFS Modeling of the Atmospheric Carbon Cycle 2023

Mastrangelo, D

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
Globo Ensemble Reforecast 2023 2023

Amiridis, V

GREECE
National Observatory of Athens
Improving dust transport models using Aeolus data assimilation (DUSTAR) 2023

Stocchi, P

ITALY
CNR-ISAC
High resolution (1.8 km) atmospheric reanalysis, obtained by dynamically downscaling ERA5 reanalysis with the Italian convection permitting meteorological model MOLOCH 2023

Patterson, M

UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford
Drivers of the successful 2022 European summer seasonal forecast 2022

Parthipan, R

UNITED KINGDOM
University of Cambridge
Probabilistic Machine Learning models for stochastic cloud parametrization schemes: development and coupled evaluation within the IFS 2022

Laux, P

GERMANY
KIT/IMK-IFU
Agricultural decision-tailored (sub)seasonal drought forecasting for Sub-Saharan Africa (AGENDA-SSA) 2022

Vervatis, V / De Mey-Frémaux, P

GREECE
Univ. of Athens / LEGOS, Toulouse
CASCADE (Coupled regional coastal ocean model ensembles) 2022

Graziosi, F

ITALY
JRC
Extend and improve CH4 flux inversions at global and European scale based on ERA5 reanalyses 2022

Nolan, P

IRELAND
ICHEC
High-Resolution Downscaled RCM-CMIP6 Simulations 2022

McAufield, E

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Investigation of the impact of the different parametrizations on the fog development in HARMONIE-AROME for NWP forecasting 2022

Hally, A

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Investigating the impact of ensemble size and increased resolution in a convection-permitting EPS: focus on high-impact events 2022

Clancy, C

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Future Weather: An Investigation of Storm Scenarios for Ireland 2022

Bessardon, G

IRELAND
Met Éireann
Evaluation, Tuning and Optimisation of physiography and Surface Physics Parametrizations in HARMONIE-AROME for NWP forecasting 2022

Shrira, V

UNITED KINGDOM
Keele University
Role of finite non-gaussianity in the evolution of wind wave fields, with applications to freak wave prediction 2022

Romero, R

SPAIN
University of the Balearic Islands
Numerical modelling of Mediterranean weather extremes: new developments in the framework of the Triangle-based Regional Atmosphe 2022

Martin, M L

SPAIN
Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Valladolid
Simulations of tropical transitions in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean: Past, present and future projections 2022

Tijm, S

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
Impact of increase of vertical levels on NWP model performance 2022

Tijm, S

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
Impact of increase of horizontal resolution on NWP model performance 2022

Davini, P

ITALY
CNR - ISAC
AddRessing iMpact of lArGe- and small-scale biases of North Atlantic SSTs on the mid-latitude Circulation (ARMAGNAC) 2022

Fischer, C

FRANCE
Météo-France
ACCORD common codes maintenance 2022

Craig, G

GERMANY
Meteorologisches Institut, LMU München
Flow-dependence of the intrinsic predictability limit and its relevance to forecast busts 2022

Olesen, M

DENMARK
DMI
Polar Regions in the Earth System: Role of local-regionalscale polar processes in the changing polar and globalclimate system (PolarRES) 2022

Drijfhout, S

NETHERLANDS
KNMI
Impact of Greenland melt water on EC-Earth high resolution simulations 2022