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The Sentinel-5P satellite launched on 13 October 2017 will make a vital contribution to the ECMWF-run Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) by measuring the composition of the atmosphere.

A workshop on observations and data assimilation of sea-surface temperatures and sea ice will take place at ECMWF from 22 to 25 January 2018. Registration is still open until 15 October.

Registration is now open for a workshop on physics–dynamics coupling (PDC18) to take place at ECMWF from 10 to 12 July 2018.

The Royal Society has awarded ECMWF scientist Peter Düben a prestigious University Research Fellowship, which starts in October.

More than 100 people from across the world joined ECMWF scientists and 28 speakers at the Annual Seminar on ‘Ensemble prediction: past, present and future’.

How can we best represent uncertainty in weather forecasting models? ECMWF scientist Sarah-Jane Lock will chart the way forward in a talk at the four-day Annual Seminar on ensemble prediction (11 to 14 September).

A symposium will be held at the Centre on 8 December 2017 to mark the decisive contributions of ECMWF scientist Adrian Simmons to numerical weather prediction and climate science.

ECMWF simulations have helped to explain how a fierce storm in June 1944 destroyed one of two harbours built to support the Allied invasion of northern France in World War II.

The multi-model sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction database hosted by ECMWF has expanded significantly over the last two years and now includes data from 11 forecasting centres.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has designated ECMWF as a World Meteorological Centre (WMC), in a clear recognition of ECMWF's global forecasting capabilities.