Summer 2025 Newsletter published
The summer 2025 issue of the ECMWF Newsletter is now available. As well as news about ECMWF staff and events, it features articles about new developments and the use that can be made of ECMWF products.
News
New ECMWF Fellows outline plans for collaborative research
ECMWF has appointed three scientists as new Fellows to collaborate on research projects undertaken at the Centre. They add to five scientists whose Fellowships were renewed or started in 2023.
Work under way on new ECMWF headquarters in Reading, UK
Construction has begun on ECMWF’s new cutting-edge headquarters in Reading, UK, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on 9 July 2025.
Next Director-General of ECMWF will drive innovation and collaboration across 35 nations
ECMWF’s Council, representing 35 Member and Co-operating States, has announced the appointment of Dr Florian Pappenberger as the Centre’s next Director-General from 1 January 2026. He will take over the post from Dr Florence Rabier.
ECMWF Annual Report 2024 published
The ECMWF Annual Report 2024 is now available online, reviewing progress towards the goals set out in our ten-year Strategy under the pillars of ‘Science and technology’, ‘Impact’, and ‘Organisation and people’.
ECMWF’s ensemble AI forecasts become operational
ECMWF has taken the ensemble version of the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today, 1 July 2025, to run side by side with the traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) to advance numerical weather prediction.
Analysing humidity in the stratosphere improves forecasts
In the next upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), humidity in the stratosphere will be analysed based on observations to improve the starting conditions of forecasts.
Impact experiments support initiative for more weather observations
Impact experiments which ECMWF has carried out for the UN’s Systematic Observations Financing Facility have shown that weather forecasts would benefit significantly from more in-situ observations in several countries.
ECMWF backs initiative for 10,000 ships to monitor oceans and weather
ECMWF is one of the partners in an initiative for 10,000 ships to be equipped for ocean and weather monitoring, launched officially today, 13 June, at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.
ECMWF scientists awarded prestigious precipitation research award
ECMWF scientists Tim Hewson and Fatima Pillosu have received the British Royal Meteorological Society’s 2024 Hugh Robert Mill Award for Precipitation Research for their achievements in improving the accuracy of rainfall forecasts.