News

The winter 2012/13 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.

'Using ECMWF's Forecasts' is an evolution of our long-running series of Forecast Products Users' meetings.

Several days of heavy rain at the end of May and beginning of June led to saturated soils and extreme flooding in central Europe.

At its 79th session on 19-20 June 2013, the ECMWF Council authorised the Director-General to enter into a service contract with Cray UK Ltd to replace the High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) at the Centre from mid-2014 onwards. The contract between ECMWF and Cray UK Ltd was signed on 24 June 2013.

Cray will provide a multi-petaflops supercomputing infrastructure at ECMWF designed for operational resiliency featuring two Cray XC30 systems and a multi-petabyte Cray Sonexion storage system.

The spring 2013 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.

The report presents some of ECMWF’s key activities in 2012. These include the provision of good guidance about extreme weather events, the upgrading of the supercomputer and the growth of the meteorological data archive.

The summer 2013 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published.

On 27 September the Director of the Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia (RHMSS) and the Director-General of ECMWF signed the “Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and ECMWF on the accession of the Republic of Serbia to the ECMWF Convention” in Belgrade.

June 2013 saw the first edition of the MACC-II Summer School take place in Anglet, France.

The first World Weather Open Science Conference ‘WWOSC 2014 - The weather: what’s the outlook?’ will be held in Montréal, Canada, from 16 to 21 August 2014.