European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an international intergovernmental organisation based at Reading, England that was founded in 1975.


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Objectives

The objectives of the ECMWF are:

  • Development of numerical methods for medium-range weather forecasting
  • Preparation of medium-range weather forecasts for distribution to the member states
  • Scientific and technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts
  • Collection and storage of appropriate meteorological data.


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Work and Projects

The ECMWF has been producing operational medium-range weather forecasts since 1979-08-01.

It has run two "re-analysis" projects, the first ECMWF re-analysis (ERA-15) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994. The ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from 1957.

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Members

The ECMWF members are of 18 European states: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

The ECMWF has co-operation agreements with 7 other states: Croatia, Czech Republic, Iceland, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro.

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