ECMWF's traditional Annual Seminar and four international workshops at ECMWF's 50th anniversary week in Bonn (Germany) in April surveyed a field that is facing a lot of change, in particular from advances in machine learning. There was great participation from all three ECMWF locations in Reading (UK), Bologna (Italy), and Bonn.
The Annual Seminar was dedicated to the theme of 'Forecasting in a changing climate' (https://events.ecmwf.int/event/418/), while the other events were on 'data assimilation: initial conditions and beyond' (https://events.ecmwf.int/event/428/); 'surface process coupling and its interactions with the atmosphere' (https://events.ecmwf.int/event/427/); 'ancillary data for land surface and Earth system modelling' (https://events.ecmwf.int/event/422/); and the 'evolution of Copernicus Services at ECMWF: challenges and opportunities' (https://events.ecmwf.int/event/426/). This Newsletter includes a closer look at three of the workshops: on data assimilation, surface process coupling, and ancillary data.
The week in Bonn will be followed by another anniversary week in Bologna in September and a concluding set of events in Reading in December. Up-to-date information on anniversary events can be found on our website: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/stories/anniversary.