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How fast can weather prediction models be adapted to work on tomorrow’s supercomputer architectures? This is one of the questions ECMWF scientist Nils Wedi will address in his talk at a supercomputer workshop which opened at the Centre on 24 October.

The Autumn 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.

The Earth’s surface slows down and deflects atmospheric flow in a variety of ways. Scientists believe a better representation of these processes in models can lead to improved weather forecasts.

Nguyen Thanh Tung, a forecaster from Vietnam’s National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, has begun a 12-month placement at ECMWF, sponsored by the WMO.

Paolo Ruti, the Chief of the WMO’s World Weather Research Division, says he is pleased with the progress made to date on the Year of Polar Prediction, a flagship activity of the World Weather Research Programme’s Polar Prediction Project.

About 100 people met in Reading from 5 to 8 September for one of ECMWF’s flagship events, the four-day Annual Seminar.

Registration for ECMWF’s workshop on high-performance computing in meteorology closes on Monday, 26 September.

ECMWF is inviting applications for the post of Director of Research with a starting date of June 2017. The closing date for applications is 7 October.

The team in charge of ECMWF’s Meteorological Archival and Retrieval System (MARS) received the European Meteorological Society (EMS) Technology Achievement Award 2016 in the Italian city of Trieste on 13 September.

ECMWF has launched its new ten-year Strategy, which sets ambitious goals that push the limits of predictability in weather forecasting.