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Effective ways to visualise data are essential in numerical weather prediction (NWP). Technological advances offer exciting possibilities, but some things have changed little since the early days of forecasting.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2014 is now available online.

The role of meteorology in the energy sector was the subject of an international conference in Boulder, Colorado, in June. David Richardson, who attended the event for ECMWF, explains why the growth in renewable energy is boosting demand for weather prediction across all timescales.

The Summer 2015 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.

Europe’s latest weather satellite has gone into orbit after it was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, late on 15 July.

ECMWF used the occasion of last week’s conference on 'Our Common Future Under Climate Change' in Paris to explain how it will implement the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services.

ECMWF weather forecasts help one of the world’s top astronomical organisations, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), to fine-tune its telescopes in the quest to explore the outer reaches of the universe.

ECMWF is hosting an international workshop that will help shape the content of the Climate Data Store.

Speakers at an event to mark ECMWF’s 40th anniversary noted the “stunning” advances made in numerical weather prediction (NWP) over the last four decades and set out the challenges that lie ahead.

The 10th Eumetcal workshop, hosted by ECMWF, explored current and future meteorological training requirements and solutions.