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An on-line survey is being carried out of readers of the ECMWF Newsletter.

The paper "The ERA-40 re-analysis", published in 2005, has been identified by Thomson Reuters Scientific's /Essential Science Indicators/ as one of the most highly cited papers in the field of Geosciences, and has been designated as a "Current Classic" for February.

ECMWF Director of Research Erland Källén and Professor Ian Roulstone of the University of Surrey joined forces on 7 September to explain to British Science Festival delegates how weather forecasters identify order within chaos.

Nature publishes a review looking at how the science of numerical weather prediction got where it is now, and where the future challenges lie.

The annual meetings of the Computing Representatives and the Security Representatives took place from 11 to 14 May 2009.

The annual meetings of the Computing Representatives and the Security Representatives took place from 11 to 14 May 2009.

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.