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The President of ECMWF’s Council, Professor Gerhard Adrian, has today announced that Florence Rabier has been appointed as successor to Professor Alan Thorpe as Director General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

New and improved versions of all ECMWF web charts and tools are now available on this website.

The two Copernicus Earth observation services run by ECMWF will set out how they can support evidence-based decision-making as world leaders meet in Paris to agree a new climate deal.

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has adopted its new strategy for 2016 to 2025 at a plenary and ministerial meeting held in Mexico City.

El Niño conditions in the central Pacific remain very strong, and sea-surface temperatures are now close to their expected maximum value as the event moves towards its peak at the end of the year.

A consortium including ECMWF has announced the successful start of the NEXTGenIO project on input/output challenges in high-performance computing (HPC).

Unusual weather satellite data over a large swathe of the Indian Ocean can be attributed to emissions from Indonesian wildfires, it has emerged.

ECMWF scientists joined researchers and data providers from around the world to discuss developments in the fields of satellite sounding data, radiative transfer, data assimilation, and new and future satellite missions.

Which aspects of the weather can be predicted up to three months ahead? This question was the subject of an international workshop held at ECMWF from 2 to 5 November.

On the occasion of the Centre’s 40th anniversary, we look back at how ECMWF came to be set up and how it has changed since then.