Supercomputer efficiency tops agenda at Cray User Group meeting 13 May 2016 Supercomputer efficiency was high on the agenda when ECMWF hosted this year’s Cray User Group (CUG) conference in London from 8 to 12 May.
ECMWF hosts Cray User Group meeting 9 May 2016 ECMWF is hosting a meeting of Cray supercomputer users in London from 8 to 12 May. The head of supercomputing at ECMWF, Mike Hawkins, has a special interest in the event.
ECMWF appoints two new Fellows 4 May 2016 Daniel Jacob from Harvard University and Heini Wernli from ETH Zurich have begun three-year Fellowships to work with ECMWF in the fields of atmospheric composition and dynamic meteorology, respectively.
ECMWF climate reanalysis prompts interest at geosciences conference 29 April 2016 Presentations by ECMWF staff on a new climate reanalysis that went into production earlier this year caused excitement among fellow scientists attending the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna from 17 to 22 April.
Registration open for workshop on supercomputing in meteorology 26 April 2016 ECMWF’s Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Meteorology takes place from 24 to 28 October 2016 in Reading, UK.
Spring Newsletter published 22 April 2016 The Spring 2016 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.
Experts on model uncertainty chart way forward 20 April 2016 Seventy-eight scientists from 15 countries met at the Centre from 11 to 15 April to discuss how best to deal with uncertainties in the models used in weather and climate forecasting systems.
How to pinpoint the sources of forecast errors 15 April 2016 Linus Magnusson works in the Diagnostics Team at ECMWF. His task: to track down the causes of differences between the Centre’s weather forecasts and observed outcomes.
Seminar on ‘Earth system modelling for seamless prediction’ 12 April 2016 Registration is now open for ECMWF’s 2016 Annual Seminar. The seminar will explore which Earth system processes we should focus on to further improve atmospheric predictive skill.
ECMWF’s annual user meeting to focus on evaluating high-impact weather forecasts 7 April 2016 Registration is open for the ‘Using ECMWF Forecasts’ meeting, 6 to 9 June 2016.
Forecasts aid mission planning for hurricane research 31 March 2016 ECMWF forecasts have helped researchers in the United States to plan the deployment of aircraft in a field experiment on tropical cyclone intensity and structure change.
World Meteorological Day 2016: ‘Hotter, Drier, Wetter’ 23 March 2016 On the occasion of World Meteorological Day 2016, Professor Erland Källén, ECMWF’s Director of Research, looks at the key moments that have marked the past twelve months at ECMWF.
ECMWF launches new simulated satellite data product 18 March 2016 ECMWF has launched a new dataset called Simulated Satellite Data (SSD), which provides global high-resolution forecasts of the weather as seen from space.
How to train the next generation of NWP experts 14 March 2016 Sarah Keeley has been in charge of ECMWF’s numerical weather prediction (NWP) training programme since 2011. Her experience as a researcher gives her the breadth and the depth of expertise required for the job.
New forecast model cycle brings highest-ever resolution 10 March 2016 ECMWF has launched a new model cycle bringing improved global weather forecasts at record-breaking resolution. The new grid on which the forecasts are run comprises up to 904 million prediction points.
Tackling the gender gap in science 8 March 2016 To mark International Women’s Day, ECMWF held an informal discussion about the gender gap in science, engineering, technology and mathematics.
The challenge of weather forecast verification 4 March 2016 Experts meeting at ECMWF on 2 and 3 March 2016 discussed how best to assess the quality of weather forecasts in the future, including predictions of extreme events.
ECMWF gives Copernicus update at Madrid climate meeting 2 March 2016 ECMWF delegates have told an international 'Big Data and Climate Change' meeting in Madrid how the Centre is implementing the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).
NEXTGenIO supercomputing partners select hardware architecture 26 February 2016 Partners from the NEXTGenIO project on input/output challenges in supercomputing decided on a hardware architecture when they met at ECMWF on 23 and 24 February 2016.