Polly Schmederer looks at how measurements from observational super-sites are helping to better understand errors in forecasts of near-surface temperature.
Science blog
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14 January 2020
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12 November 2019Exciting improvements in modelling convective precipitation are being achieved through the collaboration of visiting scientist Tobias Becker, from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, with ECMWF’s Irina Sandu and Peter Bechtold.
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11 October 2019To mark the UN International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October, Linus Magnusson discusses ECMWF forecasts of tropical cyclones and the destructive floods that can result.
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17 September 2019Following a recent workshop, Peter Dueben discusses recent progress and future possibilities in the application of machine learning to weather and climate prediction.
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15 August 2019Stephen English explains why, in a world hungry for the use of radio frequencies in new applications, the meteorological community needs to be clear about their critical value for weather prediction.
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26 July 2019As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Philippe Lopez investigates whether the ECMWF forecasting model can reproduce the detailed cloud patterns captured in those early, iconic images of planet Earth from space.
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10 June 2019The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in the US is home to “Summit”, the world’s fastest computer. After his recent trip there, Nils Wedi discusses some of the latest advances in supercomputing and considers their application to numerical weather prediction.
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3 May 2019PhD student Sam Hatfield discusses how he and colleagues built a table-top supercomputer and used it to produce demonstration weather forecasts with OpenIFS. It's a system that is proving fascinating to the public as well as benefiting Sam's research.
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8 April 2019Peter Bauer discusses recent ground-breaking work with a high-resolution version of the IFS running on some of the most powerful computers in the world, to see what speed-up can be achieved. He also takes a look back at early experiments from the 1980s.
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12 March 2019Angela Benedetti (ECMWF) and Peter Knippertz (KIT) explain how the EU-funded DACCIWA project collected new data in West Africa to investigate the causes and effects of air pollution, examining for the first time the entire chain of natural and human-made emissions.
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29 January 2019In this blog, Dr Frédéric Vitart discusses a book on recent progress and challenges in extended-range forecasting, which he has co-edited with Andrew Robertson (IRI).
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18 December 2018Louise Arnal is a scientist with a lifelong love of art. Here she explores the relationship between art and science and talks about her involvement in a number of SciArt projects.
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21 November 2018The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and EUMETSAT have teamed up to produce a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Mark Parrington discusses its production and launch.
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5 November 2018Irina Sandu from ECMWF and Annelize van Niekerk from the UK Met Office discuss their recent work in which kilometre-scale simulations are used to investigate the impact of complex orography on the atmosphere.
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10 October 2018Sami Saarinen, one of the organisers of the 18th Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Meteorology at ECMWF from 24 to 28 September 2018, goes back over some of the highlights from 41 talks, two panel discussions and a vendors' exhibition.
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24 September 2018As ECMWF’s 18th workshop on high performance computing in meteorology gets under way in Reading, Wilco Hazeleger, Director of the Netherlands eScience Center and keynote speaker, shares his excitement about the computational and data challenges ahead for the Earth sciences.
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10 September 2018As ECMWF's first Summer of Weather Code (ESoWC) comes to an end, Julia Wagemann describes how this online collaborative programme is helping ECMWF develop new and innovative software.
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24 August 2018Mark Rodwell discusses innovative diagnostics which are identifying atmospheric flow types that may lead to poor forecast performance. Such diagnostics can help to prioritise modelling efforts on aspects which might be expected to lead to the largest forecasting improvements.
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6 August 2018At ECMWF we are very excited about the prospect of using the novel space-based wind profile information of Aeolus to improve our weather forecasts. We are proud to take a significant role in the operational Ground Segment processing and in the expert teams that will work on achieving a useful wind product.