EFAS Workshop
The 4th Annual workshop of European Flood Alert System (EFAS) was held on 29 and 30 January at ECMWF. The workshop participants came from 24 national and regional water authorities across Europe.
News
ECMWF Newsletter survey
An on-line survey is being carried out of readers of the ECMWF Newsletter.
Paper on ERA-40 most highly cited in field of Geosciences
The paper "The ERA-40 re-analysis", published in 2005, has been identified by Thomson Reuters Scientific's /Essential Science Indicators/ as one of the most highly cited papers in the field of Geosciences, and has been designated as a "Current Classic" for February.
Order within chaos: big data and weather forecasting
ECMWF Director of Research Erland Källén and Professor Ian Roulstone of the University of Surrey joined forces on 7 September to explain to British Science Festival delegates how weather forecasters identify order within chaos.
The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction
Nature publishes a review looking at how the science of numerical weather prediction got where it is now, and where the future challenges lie.
Computing Representatives Meeting
The annual meetings of the Computing Representatives and the Security Representatives took place from 11 to 14 May 2009.
Security Representatives' Meeting
The annual meetings of the Computing Representatives and the Security Representatives took place from 11 to 14 May 2009.
New EU-funded project MACC
The EU-funded GEMS project ran from 1 March 2005 to 31 May 2009. Operation and improvement of the systems developed during GEMS is continuing in a new EU-funded project MACC - Modelling Atmospheric Composition and Climate. Products from MACC are being displayed on the GEMS web pages during a transitional period.
Ocean waves
Prediction of the maximum wave height of extreme events is of tremendous benefit to the marine world.
Annual Report 2008
The ECMWF Annual Report 2008 has been made available online.