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ECMWF scientists joined researchers and data providers from around the world to discuss developments in the fields of satellite sounding data, radiative transfer, data assimilation, and new and future satellite missions.

Which aspects of the weather can be predicted up to three months ahead? This question was the subject of an international workshop held at ECMWF from 2 to 5 November.

On the occasion of the Centre’s 40th anniversary, we look back at how ECMWF came to be set up and how it has changed since then.

Professor Rupert Klein, a renowned scientist in the areas of geophysical fluid dynamics and numerical modelling, has ambitious goals for his three-year ECMWF Fellowship.

The Autumn 2015 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 collaborates with the best experts in meteorology across the world. It helps that some of them are based on its doorstep.

El Niño conditions in the central Pacific are now very strong, and sea-surface temperature anomalies are continuing to increase slowly as the event moves towards its expected peak at the end of the year.

ECMWF hosted the second meeting of the EarthServer-2 project, which aims to improve access to Big Earth Data, on 8 and 9 October.

ESCAPE, a major EU-funded project in ECMWF’s Scalability Programme, held its kick-off meeting at the Centre on 1 and 2 October.

Innovative uses of 3D and debates on user interaction were among the highlights of a week of events on visualisation in meteorology at ECMWF.