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The EU-funded GEMS project ran from 1 March 2005 to 31 May 2009. Operation and improvement of the systems developed during GEMS is continuing in a new EU-funded project MACC - Modelling Atmospheric Composition and Climate. Products from MACC are being displayed on the GEMS web pages during a transitional period.

Prediction of the maximum wave height of extreme events is of tremendous benefit to the marine world.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2008 has been made available online.

ECMWF has an extensive education and training programme to assist Member States, Co-operating States and WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in the training of scientists in numerical weather forecasting, and in making use of the ECMWF computing and archive facilities.

Nearly 60 participants from 22 different countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas attended the 12th Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems, which took place at ECMWF from 2 to 6 November 2009.

About 50 leading scientist from outside ECMWF participated in the workshop on "Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the Implications for Predictability", which took place at ECMWF from 9 to 12 November.

ECMWF has pioneered a system to predict forecast confidence.

In December 2009, the respective Councils of ECMWF and ESA agreed to the extension of the Co-operation Agreement between ECMWF and ESA for another five years.

ECMWF welcomed more than 120 visitors to the First General Assembly of the MACC project.

On Tuesday 26 January, ECMWF upgraded the horizontal resolutions of its deterministic forecast and data assimilation systems and the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS), including the weekly extension to 32 days.