The post-mortems have begun on how well Hurricane Joaquin was predicted, and one of the key themes is why the flagship global model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ...
A newly operational model, known as the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS), has been launched by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), an intergovernmental ...
The top panel shows the OpenIFS forecast of a storm event in September 2016, at 78 km horizontal grid spacing, compared against the ECMWF operational forecast at the time, on a 9 km grid in the bottom ...
Global weather models form the foundation of much of the available solar irradiance and power forecasting, and are typically sourced from publicly funded weather agencies, including the European ...
As world events bring energy security to the fore and climate change continues to drive moves towards a lower-carbon economy, ECMWF is helping to unlock new possibilities in offshore wind-power ...
The Italian data and supercomputing centre would be built on the site of an old tobacco factory The next-generation supercomputer that will drive Europe’s medium-range weather forecasts looks set to ...