NASA keen to deepen ties with weather organisations, Chief Scientist says
NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan has said her organisation is keen to forge closer links with weather forecasting services around the world.
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Supercomputer deal boosts prediction capabilities
ECMWF has signed a contract with Cray Inc. to significantly upgrade its supercomputer facility, enabling the Centre to further improve its numerical weather predictions.
Winter newsletter published
The Winter 2015/16 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 Fellow explores new ideas to boost accuracy in NWP
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”.
Jason-3 satellite launched
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 steps up flood prediction work
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.
Collaboration with Chinese weather service broadens
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.
Croatia becomes ECMWF’s 22nd Member State
Full membership marks the next step in Croatia's long history of co-operation with ECMWF.
News highlights of 2015
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.
Records tumble as El Niño peaks
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.