Medium-Range

In particular, the NRC notes that the "gap in model performance" between NCEP's Global Forecast System (GFS) and the global model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), universally recognized as the preeminent global model, "has not narrowed in the past 15 years."

U.S. lags other nations in global weather prediction Steve Tracton 2010

The second dataset used for comparison is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis (ERA-15) [10].

Simulation of observed arctic climate with the ACIA designated models 2009

The same biases are also found in the DLR fluxes calculated by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) model in assimilation mode (reanalysis), in which the biases in the atmospheric thermal and humidity structure are minimized.

Wild et al 2001 on Downward Longwave Radiation « Climate Audit 2005

Prof Alan Thorpe European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Prof Ed Hill, director of the National Oceanography Centre, said: The potential, if one could have reliable seasonal forecasts, is enormous.

BBC News - Home 2011

But Prof Hill, Prof Hardaker and a third witness - Prof Alan Thorpe, the director general of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts - all agreed a lack of supercomputers was a major problem.

BBC News - Home 2011

Prof Thorpe, the new director-general of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, said: "The Met Office's problem is that they have to shove all this into two minutes at the end of the news and it is very hard."

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

"If we step forward 20 to 40 years into the future of climate science, it is conceivable we can have climate models down to a scale of a few kilometers' resolution," Alan Thorpe, director general of the UK-based European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECMWF, told reporters.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

The 40-year-old, who works at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in

getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed 2010

An analysis by the European Centre for Medium-Range

Climate Progress 2010

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has recently issued a new set of global temperature readings covering the past 30 years, with thermometer readings augmented by satellite data.

Blogpulse Top Links 2010