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Almost 40 ECMWF scientists took part in the European Space Agency’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium in Bonn, Germany, from 23 to 27 May, and some 15 scientists contributed to the annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union being held at the same time in Vienna, Austria, and online.

More than 100 online and 47 in-person participants attended an ECMWF event on model uncertainty in weather forecasting from 9 to 12 May 2022.

Almost 40 ECMWF scientists are participating in the European Space Agency’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium in Bonn, Germany, 23–27 May.

An ECMWF delegation has taken part in the final workshop of the EU-funded TAMIR project on tools for the management of floods. They expect to build the outcomes of the project into the EU’s Copernicus Emergency Management Service, to which they contribute.

Christine Kitchen, ECMWF’s Deputy Director of Computing, has an important priority: taking the new high-performance computing facility in Bologna, Italy, into operation. The four Atos BullSequana XH2000 complexes will replace two Cray XC40 clusters based in Reading, UK.

On 4 May 2002, the research satellite Aqua was launched from Vandenberg Air Base in California. Some of its observations continue to be assimilated by ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System to help establish the initial conditions of weather forecasts.

Europe experienced its warmest summer on record, and one of the most intense fire seasons in 30 years, according to the European State of the Climate 2021, published by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, implemented by ECMWF and funded by the European Union.

The spring 2022 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.

ECMWF’s Annual Seminar from 12 to 16 September 2022 will look at challenges in physics in seamless predictions across forecast model resolutions and timescales. Registration is open until 29 July.