Copernicus workshop focuses on climate observations 30 June 2015 ECMWF is hosting an international workshop that will help shape the content of the Climate Data Store.
ECMWF 40th anniversary speakers hail progress in NWP 26 June 2015 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.
Advancing training and education in weather prediction 3 July 2015 The 10th Eumetcal workshop, hosted by ECMWF, explored current and future meteorological training requirements and solutions.
Second EU Earth observation satellite launched 23 June 2015 Sentinel-2A has become the second satellite in the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme to go into orbit.
How to “professionalise” climate change communication 19 June 2015 Expert communicators met in Brussels on 16 and 17 June to look into ways to communicate climate information effectively.
The climate change communication question 16 June 2015 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 makes “invaluable” contribution to research and training 12 June 2015 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 user meeting focuses on uncertainty in NWP 9 June 2015 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).
World Meteorological Organization appoints new Secretary-General 5 June 2015 Petteri Taalas, the Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, has been appointed as the next Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Course probes numerical methods in weather forecasting 2 June 2015 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.