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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’.

In the next upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), humidity in the stratosphere will be analysed based on observations to improve the starting conditions of forecasts.

Impact experiments which ECMWF has carried out for the UN’s Systematic Observations Financing Facility have shown that weather forecasts would benefit significantly from more in-situ observations in several countries.

ECMWF is one of the partners in an initiative for 10,000 ships to be equipped for ocean and weather monitoring, launched officially today, 13 June, at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.

ECMWF scientists Tim Hewson and Fatima Pillosu have received the British Royal Meteorological Society’s 2024 Hugh Robert Mill Award for Precipitation Research for their achievements in improving the accuracy of rainfall forecasts.

Fredrik Wetterhall has transitioned from working in flood forecasting, an area that was expanding at ECMWF when he joined in 2011, to leading some of ECMWF’s involvement in external projects.

ECMWF’s year of activities for its 50th anniversary will continue from 15 to 19 September with a series of workshops and meetings to be held in Bologna, Italy.

The AI Weather Quest Testing Period is now officially open. Running from mid-May to mid-August 2025, it gives registered participants a chance to test their models and the submission of forecasts.

ECMWF is taking a prominent role in the Horizon Europe research project SEED-FD (Strengthening Extreme Events Detection for Floods and Droughts) to improve the global prediction of extreme floods and droughts.

ECMWF Director-General Florence Rabier and the Anemoi Framework on machine learning, in which ECMWF plays a leading role, will each receive a prestigious award from the European Meteorological Society (EMS).