Bologna hosts next in series of ECMWF 50th anniversary events
Part of ECMWF’s year of activities for its 50th anniversary takes place this week (15–19 September) in Bologna, Italy, including a series of workshops the launch of a new publication.
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Reaching JUPITER: ECMWF celebrates the first European exascale supercomputer
Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, has gone into operation, marking a significant milestone in high-performance computing for weather and climate research.
ECMWF at the EMS Annual Meeting 2025
We are participating in the 2025 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society from 7 to 12 September. Find out about our booth and which sessions our staff are involved in as speakers, poster presenters and conveners.
News highlights January to July 2025
ECMWF news highlights in the first seven months of 2025 include updates on our Integrated Forecasting System and our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System, on initiatives in weather science, and on the EU-funded services implemented by ECMWF.
Summer 2025 Newsletter published
The summer 2025 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.
New ECMWF Fellows outline plans for collaborative research
ECMWF has appointed three scientists as new Fellows to collaborate on research projects undertaken at the Centre. They add to five scientists whose Fellowships were renewed or started in 2023.
Work under way on new ECMWF headquarters in Reading, UK
Construction has begun on ECMWF’s new cutting-edge headquarters in Reading, UK, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on 9 July 2025.
Next Director-General of ECMWF will drive innovation and collaboration across 35 nations
ECMWF’s Council, representing 35 Member and Co-operating States, has announced the appointment of Dr Florian Pappenberger as the Centre’s next Director-General from 1 January 2026. He will take over the post from Dr Florence Rabier.
ECMWF Annual Report 2024 published
The ECMWF Annual Report 2024 is now available online, reviewing progress towards the goals set out in our ten-year Strategy under the pillars of ‘Science and technology’, ‘Impact’, and ‘Organisation and people’.
ECMWF’s ensemble AI forecasts become operational
ECMWF has taken the ensemble version of the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today, 1 July 2025, to run side by side with the traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) to advance numerical weather prediction.