News

ECMWF news highlights in the first seven months of 2024 include updates on forthcoming improvements in the Integrated Forecasting System, initiatives to drive forward weather science, and news from the EU-funded services implemented by ECMWF.

The summer 2024 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.

Ioan Hadade specialises in high-performance computing. His skills are essential to make our numerical weather forecasts run efficiently on our high-performance computing facility in Bologna, Italy.

Progress has been made in applying machine learning tools to adjust the initial conditions and the trajectory of physics-based forecasts.

In the next upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), changes in the ocean wind wave model component will be implemented which improve forecasts.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2023 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 official launch event of the EU’s Destination Earth second phase takes place today at the EuroHPC LUMI Supercomputer Center in Finland. DestinE, which aims to build a digital replica of our planet, is implemented by ECMWF, ESA, and EUMETSAT.

In the next upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), changes will be implemented which improve short-range forecasts of two-metre temperature.

Three videos developed as part of the EU-funded CoCO2 research project coordinated by ECMWF show a ‘nature run’ of greenhouse gases over the year 2021.

ECMWF’s endeavour to create first-class machine learning weather forecasts relies on the expertise of its staff, including Jesper Dramsch, who joined ECMWF in 2021.