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A wide-ranging upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), implemented on 30 June 2020, improves global weather forecasts and substantially improves analyses and forecasts in the stratosphere.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2019 is now available online. The report reviews improvements in forecast performance, advances in research, the Centre’s contributions to Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation programme, and preparations for the new data centre in Italy.

ECMWF scientist Mark Parrington studied physics to find out how the world works. Today he applies the skills he has acquired to tracking changes in atmospheric composition and communicating his findings to the public.

ECMWF virtually met its data, product and service users during this year’s Using ECMWF’s Forecasts event (UEF 2020) from 1 to 4 June 2020. The online meeting attracted 227 people from 43 countries

A coordinated response involving EUMETNET, national meteorological services and private companies is helping to mitigate any adverse effects of the continued loss of aircraft-based observations on weather forecasts.

ECMWF upgrades its forecasting system on a regular basis, and one such upgrade is planned for 30 June 2020. Director of Forecasts Florian Pappenberger will explain how the changes improve forecasts in two webinars on 27 and 28 May 2020.

ECMWF scientists have made progress in using visible light satellite data to estimate the concentration of small particles suspended in the atmosphere. Their work could pave the way for the fuller use of such data in numerical weather prediction.

The EU-funded IMPREX and ANYWHERE projects on weather-related hazards have received positive final review reports. ECMWF has contributed to and benefited from the projects.

The TIGGE database of global medium-range ensemble forecasts hosted by ECMWF holds a growing range of data from 11 forecasting centres readily available to researchers worldwide.

Dozens of ECMWF scientists have uploaded presentations or will act as conveners at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020 from 4 to 8 May, which will take place as an online event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.