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A two-day meeting of the EC-Earth consortium hosted by ECMWF has reviewed progress in developing an improved Earth system model for fresh insights into climate change.

ECMWF has held the second in a series of workshops helping to shape the Copernicus Climate Change Service it is implementing on behalf of the EU.

Efforts to prepare forecasting systems for the exascale era of supercomputing receive a boost as the European Commission backs the 4m-euro ESCAPE project coordinated by ECMWF.

ECMWF delegates ran a series of well-attended sessions at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna from 12 to 17 April and used the opportunity to catch up with the work of fellow scientists.

Global temperatures continued to be high in the first quarter of this year after 2014 was one of the warmest years on record.

ECMWF has published the first four Copernicus Invitations to Tender.

How weather forecasting makes use of the millions of observations that are made each day of the atmosphere, oceans and land was the focus of two training modules held at ECMWF in March 2015.

Presenters have until 14 April 2015 to submit their application, while those wishing to attend can apply until 11 June 2015.

ECMWF is calling for independent experts in a number of scientific and technical areas to evaluate proposals sent in response to Copernicus ITTs.

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation was the subject of a workshop in the Canadian city of Victoria from 16 to 18 March. Tim Stockdale, who represented ECMWF at the meeting, explains what the QBO is all about.