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Professor Tim Palmer says work on numerical weather prediction (NWP) carried out by his group at the University of Oxford can help ECMWF achieve “more accuracy with less precision”.

A satellite that can determine sea-surface height to within a few centimetres has gone into orbit after it was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 17 January.

ECMWF is helping to create a system that produces real-time flood forecasts for the entire globe. The work builds on the Centre’s experience with flood forecasting in Europe.

Two years after the conclusion of a formal Co-operation Agreement, ECMWF and the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) are extending their successful collaboration on satellite data to the prediction of dust storms.

Full membership marks the next step in Croatia's long history of co-operation with ECMWF.

From welcoming a new Member State and launching a new model cycle to celebrating the Centre’s 40th anniversary and appointing a new Director-General, 2015 has had its fair share of big ECMWF news stories.

El Niño conditions in the central Pacific have now reached their peak, setting new records for sea-surface temperature in the central and western equatorial Pacific.

Dr Kathryn Sullivan, Administrator of NOAA, visited ECMWF on 30 November. In an interview, she said numerical weather prediction (NWP) provided “the ability to give human beings foresight”.

Scientists attending an international workshop co-organised by ECMWF have reviewed progress and challenges in using satellite observations relating to clouds and precipitation in numerical weather prediction (NWP).

The President of ECMWF’s Council, Professor Gerhard Adrian, has today announced that Florence Rabier has been appointed as successor to Professor Alan Thorpe as Director General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.