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Participants at Copernicus workshop June 2015

Copernicus workshop focuses on climate observations

ECMWF is hosting an international workshop that will help shape the content of the Climate Data Store.

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ECMWF 40th anniversary speakers hail progress in NWP

Speakers at an event to mark ECMWF’s 40th anniversary noted the “stunning” advances made in numerical weather prediction (NWP) over the last four decades and set out the challenges that lie ahead.

Group photo of participants at 10th Eumetcal workshop, 2015

Advancing training and education in weather prediction

The 10th Eumetcal workshop, hosted by ECMWF, explored current and future meteorological training requirements and solutions.

Sentinel-2A satellite launch

Second EU Earth observation satellite launched

Sentinel-2A has become the second satellite in the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme to go into orbit.

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How to “professionalise” climate change communication

Expert communicators met in Brussels on 16 and 17 June to look into ways to communicate climate information effectively.

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The climate change communication question

How can we best communicate what we know about climate change? The question matters because there is a broad consensus that climate change is real and has potential impacts on society.

OpenIFS 2015 user meeting group photo

OpenIFS makes “invaluable” contribution to research and training

Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Helsinki describe OpenIFS, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), as an “invaluable” tool for research and training.

OpenIFS classroom work

OpenIFS user meeting focuses on uncertainty in NWP

Users of the OpenIFS model, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System, are meeting at the Centre from 10 to 12 June for a workshop that focuses on uncertainty in numerical weather prediction (NWP).

Petteri Taalas

World Meteorological Organization appoints new Secretary-General

Petteri Taalas, the Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, has been appointed as the next Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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Course probes numerical methods in weather forecasting

A training course being held at ECMWF from 1 to 5 June delves deep into the methods that lie at the heart of numerical weather prediction (NWP) and Earth-system modelling.