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John Eyre is Met Office Fellow in Satellite Applications and has spent most of his career at the UK Met Office and ECMWF.

Dieter Klaes leads the Atmospheric Profiling Competence team within the Remote Sensing and Products Division of EUMETSAT. At the seminar he gave a presentation on techniques and processes for pre-launch characterization of new instruments.

Professor Erland Källén has been Director of Research at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) since 2009.

ECMWF’s Annual Seminar 2014 starts today and will focus on “Use of Satellite Observations in NWP”.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2013 is now available. It is structured around the 8 key objectives set out in the Centre's 4-year programme of activities.

Tim Palmer has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2014 Dirac medal for his work on probabilistic weather and climate prediction.

Since 2004 HEPEX has developed into a broad network of scientists, forecasting groups, and end-users

ECMWF is launching a new fellowship programme to foster collaboration with renowned international scientists. July 2014 marks the start of a three-year tenure for the first ECMWF Fellows: Professor Tilmann Gneiting, Professor Rupert Klein and Professor Tim Palmer.

The European Union Council’s Space Working Party visited EUMETSAT on June 17 for a series of presentations demonstrating the organisation’s central role in bringing data to Copernicus services’ and their end users.

ECMWF met its data users at the ‘Using ECMWF’s Forecasts’ (UEF2014) meeting from 4 to 6 June 2014.

An international audience of more than 80 professionals from national meteorological services, commercial businesses and international organisations met at ECMWF to learn about new developments, exchange ideas on the use of ECMWF data and share their experiences. For ECMWF, the meeting was a valuable opportunity to gather feedback on its forecast performance and services.