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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.

Sentinel-2A has become the second satellite in the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme to go into orbit.

Expert communicators met in Brussels on 16 and 17 June to look into ways to communicate climate information effectively.

How can we best communicate what we know about climate change? The question matters because there is a broad consensus that climate change is real and has potential impacts on society.

Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Helsinki describe OpenIFS, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), as an “invaluable” tool for research and training.

Users of the OpenIFS model, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System, are meeting at the Centre from 10 to 12 June for a workshop that focuses on uncertainty in numerical weather prediction (NWP).

Petteri Taalas, the Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, has been appointed as the next Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).