Horizontal resolution increase
On Tuesday 26 January, ECMWF upgraded the horizontal resolutions of its deterministic forecast and data assimilation systems and the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS), including the weekly extension to 32 days.
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GEO User Interface Committee meeting hosted at ECMWF
The User Interface Committee of the Group on Earth Observation held its 14th meeting at ECMWF on 2-4 March 2010.
ECMWF corporate video
A corporate video about ECMWF has been made available on the ECMWF public web.
EUCOS Scientific Advisory Team
The Scientific Advisory Team of EUCOS, the EUMETNET Composite Observing System, met at ECMWF from 2 to 4 March.
Landmark in forecast performance
In February 2010, ECMWF reached a landmark in the performance of its deterministic forecasting system.
Eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland
Links to up-to-date information about the eruption.
Aksel Wiin-Nielsen passed away
Professor Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, the first Director at ECMWF, sadly passed away on Monday, 26 April 2010.
New web products from the ECMWF ensemble prediction system
ECMWF has extended the range of weather forecast products that are available freely and with no restrictions from its website.
The Ensemble of Data assimilations and its use in the EPS
On Tuesday, 22 June 2010, ECMWF implemented an Ensemble of Data Assimilations (EDA). The EDA is designed to provide information about the uncertainty in the analysis of atmospheric observations that provides the starting point for ECMWF's forecasts. In this implementation, the output from the EDA is used to improve the representation of initial-time uncertainty in the forecasts of the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). The result is a more reliable estimation of forecast uncertainty.
The first TV picture from space?
Comparison with corresponding weather maps produced from the ERA-40 reanalysis has led to confirmation that whilst this image is one of the early pictures from TIROS 1, it is certainly not the first.