Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2022)

The presentation will review forecast product development activities at ECMWF over the past year, in response to user requests and feedback.

The Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) upgrade to Cycle 47r3 in October 2021 included a major upgrade to the moist physics of the model, resulting in more realistic precipitation characteristics. With Cycle 47r3, we introduced several new products,...

ECMWF’s mission for 2021-2030 is to “Deliver global medium-range numerical weather predictions and monitoring of the Earth system to our Member States”. Underpinning this are the values: Collaboration, Integrity, and Passion.
This presentation highlights how work being doing at ECMWF are in line with these. Our integrity and passion have resulted in new model updates and continued leading...

ECMWF carries out a wide-ranging research programme, and this presentation will describe some of the key current foci. Ultimately the goal of the research is to lead to better forecasts, and the talk will include a brief recap of the two operational upgrades introduced over the last year, and a description of the plans for new cycles to exploit the new HPC in Bologna.

I will discuss: (i) recent popular visualisations of climate data aimed at broad public audiences, and (ii) various issues in how we present weather and climate data in scientific graphics.