News

The summer 2023 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.

ECMWF news highlights in the first seven months of 2023 include a major upgrade of the forecasting system; initiatives to drive forward weather science; and news from the EU-funded services implemented by ECMWF.

High-performance computing (HPC) in meteorology will include increasingly heterogeneous architectures and align with machine-learning developments, issues at the centre of ECMWF’s 20th Workshop on HPC in Meteorology from 9 to 13 October 2023 in Bologna, Italy.

An upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System to Cycle 48r1 on 27 June has substantially improved the skill of the Centre’s weather predictions and has increased the resolution of medium-range ensemble forecasts.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2022 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’.

The global-mean surface air temperature was more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in early June, which is a first for a summer month, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) implemented by ECMWF has said.

Forecasts assembled by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service implemented by ECMWF predict a growing El Niño event, which is a prolonged period of abnormally high sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

The urban environment will for the first time be considered in ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) from next year. This is important because in cities temperatures are often elevated compared to their surroundings.

Researchers from any organisation in ECMWF Member States are invited to apply for computing resources as part of the Special Project framework. For projects to start at the beginning of 2024, requests should be submitted before 30 June 2023.