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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2020)
DTSTART:20200601T063000Z
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DESCRIPTION:\n\n#UEF2020\n\nA forum to discuss the use and performance of 
 ECMWF's forecasts and related products\n\n“Using ECMWF’s Forecasts” 
 provides a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences on the use of ECMWF 
 data and products. It is open to all ECMWF forecast users around the world
  and provides an opportunity to give feedback to ECMWF on forecast perform
 ance and on the range of available products\, and to learn about ECMWF’s
  recent developments of its forecasting system.\n\n2020 theme: "Keeping us
 ers at the heart of operations”\n\nECMWF was created over four decades a
 go with the goal of improving global numerical weather predictions to supp
 ort its Member and Co-operating States\, as well as the broader meteorolog
 ical communities. ECMWF now provides its users around the world with predi
 ctions for days\, weeks and seasons ahead at a level of accuracy and relia
 bility second to none. The Centre owes this leading position to a combinat
 ion of collaborative principles\, top-level professionals\, powerful HPC c
 apacities and a strong user focus.\n\nDuring this year’s meeting we expl
 ored how end-user needs feed into the operational activities of weather an
 d environmental information providers to deliver added value outputs. We l
 ooked at ECMWF processes and how they transform research\, technical devel
 opment and data inputs into desired products or services for its data user
 s in Member and Co-operating states and around the world.\n\nKeeping users
  at the heart of operations relies on maintaining a 2-way communication be
 tween users and data providers. Effective channels to collect feedback and
  advice are therefore essential to establish such a dialogue. Moreover\, t
 he 2-way communication ensures that innovation is relevant and its benefit
 s are passed to users in order to support their ability to provide more ac
 curate environment\, weather\, water and climate actionable information. E
 xamples of this are research to operations processes that transition from 
 a planning\, development and testing phase to implementation and evaluatio
 n. The corresponding operations to research process provides feedback on p
 erformance and evolving user needs\, helping to focus research efforts.\n\
 nThe UEF offered an opportunity for participants to showcase their activit
 ies and responses to users’ needs. The meeting also provided a framework
  where participants were able to share their experiences with ECMWF data a
 nd provide feedback on ECMWF products.\n\nhttps://events.ecmwf.int/event/1
 66/
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