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

Contents

1 Objectives 2 Work and Projects 3 Members 4 External links

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.

Work and Projects

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

The ERA-15 project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994. The ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from 1957.

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,

External links

• Official Website http://www.ecmwf.int
• ERA-15 reanalysis http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/ERA-15/index.html
• ERA-40 reanalysis http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/Project/index.html