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Professor Florian Pappenberger has been appointed Director of Forecasts at ECMWF. He took up the position on 1 July after ECMWF’s Council approved the appointment.

Representatives from all of ECMWF’s Member States used the occasion of the first Council meeting of 2016 to raise the flag of ECMWF’s newest member.

ECMWF is preparing to host a workshop on tropical weather prediction and tropical circulation, inspired by a new space mission to gather global wind information.

As an international organisation born of European nations pooling their resources, we trust that the spirit of collaboration which is the essence of ECMWF will continue notwithstanding the fact that the UK has voted to leave the EU.

Twenty-two postgraduate students from France’s École Nationale de la Météorologie used ECMWF’s OpenIFS model in a workshop on ensemble forecasts held in Toulouse from 7 to 9 June.

Recent global warmth has been exceptional and can be linked to a strong El Niño, other natural variability and underlying climate change.

About 30 scientists from 10 European countries met at ECMWF from 23 to 25 May to explore how European non-satellite meteorological observing systems can be optimised.

Nearly 100 users of ECMWF forecasts are meeting at the Centre from 6 to 9 June to discuss new approaches to the evaluation of weather predictions. Dr Anna Ghelli has been in charge of the annual event since 2012.

Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics Heini Wernli from the ETH Zurich says studying the detailed physical processes involved in severe weather events can help us understand why some forecasts go wrong.

ECMWF has started to use newly available aircraft observations of humidity, temperature and wind to help initialise its forecasts.