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The official launch event of the EU’s Destination Earth second phase takes place today at the EuroHPC LUMI Supercomputer Center in Finland. DestinE, which aims to build a digital replica of our planet, is implemented by ECMWF, ESA, and EUMETSAT.

In the next upgrade of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), changes will be implemented which improve short-range forecasts of two-metre temperature.

Three videos developed as part of the EU-funded CoCO2 research project coordinated by ECMWF show a ‘nature run’ of greenhouse gases over the year 2021.

ECMWF’s endeavour to create first-class machine learning weather forecasts relies on the expertise of its staff, including Jesper Dramsch, who joined ECMWF in 2021.

A new satellite called Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE), to be launched later this month, will provide unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols that will help ECMWF to initialise its weather forecasts.

ECMWF held the 5th workshop on ocean waves and wave-coupled processes in Reading (UK) from 10 to 12 April 2024. It was attended by 80 scientists from across the world and followed workshops in Melbourne, Qingdao, Hangzhou and Uppsala.

One third of the European river network saw river flows above the ‘high’ threshold in 2023, and the year saw a record number of days with ‘extreme heat stress’ in Europe, a report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, implemented by ECMWF, and the World Meteorological Organization says.

The spring 2024 issue of the ECMWF Newsletter is now available. As well as news about ECMWF staff and events, it features articles about new developments and the use that can be made of ECMWF products.

Estíbaliz Gascón specialises in the evaluation and diagnostics of weather forecasts. She now evaluates forecasts of extreme weather events and diagnoses km-scale forecasts ECMWF is developing as part of the EU’s Destination Earth initiative.