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On 28 October 2010, Mr Israel Katz, Israeli Minister of Transport and Road Safety, and Mr Dominique Marbouty, Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), signed a co-operation agreement at ECMWF’s headquarters.

As in past years, ECMWF offers a variety of training courses, workshops and seminars in 2011.

All ECMWF forecast data and products are developed for and distributed to the ECMWF Member and Co-operating States

The official kick-off meeting for the ERA-CLIM project took place at ECMWF on Wednesday 16 February 2011

A new version of the ECMWF forecasting and analysis system, Cycle 37r2, was implemented on 18 May 2011.

Today, 1 June 2011, the Republic of Iceland will become ECMWF’s 19th Member State.

The 56th IMO prize has been awarded to the late Aksel Wiin-Nielsen as a lifetime achievement award.

Under the chairmanship of its President, Francois Jacq (France), the Council held its 75th session on 16 and 17 June 2011.

Between 20 and 24 June 2011, a workshop was held at ECMWF on 'Representing Model Uncertainty and Error in Weather and Climate Prediction'.

Jean Labrousse, the second Director at ECMWF, sadly passed away on Saturday 9 July 2011.