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On Tuesday, 11 March 2008, ECMWF integrated its Monthly Forecasting System with the medium-range Ensemble Prediction System (VarEPS). The new monthly forecast products were produced for the first time on Thursday, 13 March 2008.

ERA-Interim reanalysis products for the years 1989-1998 are now available for research and education at 1.5° resolution from the ECMWF on-line Data Server.

ECMWF has now made a range of marine forecast products available to WMO Members.

On 30 April 2008, the Latvian Government officially notified the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) that all internal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the co-operation agreement between Latvia and ECMWF had been completed.

The annual meetings of the Computing Representatives and the Security Representatives took place from 13 to 16 May 2008.

The World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction was hosted by ECMWF from 6 to 9 May 2008, and fully funded through wide-ranging international sponsorship.

ECMWF hosted the GRAS Satellite Application Facility (SAF) Workshop on the "Applications of GPS radio occultation measurements" from 16 to 18 June 2008.

The ECMWF annual seminar took place from 1 to 4 September. The title of this year's seminar was: "Parametrization of sub-grid physical processes".

France, as part of its Presidency of the European Union, and the European Commission jointly held a Forum in Lille, France, on 16 and 17 September 2008 to mark the launch of the first GMES services.

Every second year, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) hosts a workshop on the use of high performance computing in meteorology.