Using ECMWF's Forecasts Event (UEF2026)
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| Monday, 1 June 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Registration and opening | ||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Welcome |
Umberto Modigliani (ECMWF)
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| 14:10 – 14:20 | Housekeeping and theme |
Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| ECMWF updates | ||
| 14:20 – 15:30 |
ECMWF updates
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Eulalie Boucher (ECMWF)
Matthieu Chevallier (ECMWF)
Michael Sleigh (ECMWF)
Tony McNally (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Medium-range forecast skill of 2m temperature in the IFS and AIFS |
Thomas Haiden
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | How temperature is forecast at ECMWF |
Annelize van Niekerk (ECMWF)
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| Posters | ||
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Poster introductions | |
| 17:15 – 18:30 | Poster session and drinks reception | |
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| Tuesday, 2 June 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Invited speaker | ||
| 09:00 – 09:40 | TBC | |
| Themed Session – Temperature forecasting in Europe and beyond | ||
| 09:40 – 10:00 | How can 2m temperature forecasts possibly go wrong? – an ECMWF perspective |
Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
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| 10:00 – 10:20 | The May 2025 Iceland heatwave: an unprecedented early-season extreme |
Kristín Hermannsdóttir (Icelandic Met Office)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 | Operational management of heat stress and heatwaves in public weather bulletins using ECMWF products in Lombardy |
Gian Paolo Minardi (ARPA Lombardia)
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| 10:40 – 11:20 | Group photo and coffee break | |
| Themed Session – Temperature forecasting in Europe and beyond | ||
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Evaluation of ECMWF 2 m Temperature Forecasts During Extreme Cold Events in Northern Sweden |
Antonio Fuentes Moreno (SMHI)
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| 11:40 – 12:00 | TBC | |
| 12:00 – 12:20 |
Evaluation of Predictability of Coldwave Events in Lesotho Using ECMWF Ensemble Forecasts
Online presentation |
Rammolenyane Lethaha (Lesotho Meteorological Services)
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| 12:20 – 12:40 | TBC | |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Evaluation of severe temperature events in the medium-range and sub-seasonal range in the ECMWF Severe Event Catalogue |
Linus Magnusson (ECMWF)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| Interactive activities | ||
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Interactive Activity: Weather Stations part 1 | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Interactive Activity: Weather Stations part 2 | |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Event dinner | |
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| Wednesday, 3 June 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| Themed Session: Forecast to Impact | ||
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Keynote presentation: Title TBC |
Madeleine Thomson (Wellcome)
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| 09:40 – 10:00 | Climate and Environmental Digital Twins for Human Health: Leveraging Earth Observation for Compound Climate and Air Quality Extremes Early Warning |
Ana Oliveira (CoLAB +ATLANTIC)
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| 10:00 – 10:20 | Towards human-centric weather forecasting: heat and cold stress indices at ECMWF |
Claudia Di Napoli (ECMWF)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 | Thermal Trace: health-related weather and climate monitoring |
Rebecca Emerton (ECMWF)
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| 10:40 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| Themed Session: Seasonal and Sub-seasonal focus | ||
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Update about the work of Subgroup to Review User Relevant Sub Seasonal Verification |
Anssi Vähämäki (FMI)
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| 11:40 – 12:00 | ECMWF sub-seasonal forecasts in the Swiss national drought warning system: first operational learnings |
Annie Y.-Y. Chang (MeteoSwiss)
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| 12:00 – 12:20 | TBC | |
| 12:20 – 13:00 | Implementation of SEAS6 |
Tim Stockdale (ECMWF)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| Themed session | ||
| 14:00 – 14:50 | Live Demo: interactive apps for exploring extreme event data |
Guy Griffiths (University of Reading)
James Varndell (ECMWF)
Matthew Menary (ECMWF)
Rebecca Emerton (ECMWF)
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| 14:50 – 15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20 – 17:00 | User Voice Corner | |
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| Thursday, 4 June 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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| GRIB2 Update and Discussion Session | ||
| 09:00 – 09:50 | GRIB2 – Update and Q&A session |
Sebastien Villaume (ECMWF)
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| 09:50 – 10:10 | Bias correction for surface atmospheric variables using a statistical modelling approach |
Mahmud Hasan Ghani (CMCC)
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| 10:10 – 10:50 |
A Novel Member-By-Member Postprocessing Framework for Ensemble Temperature Forecasts
Online presentation |
Bahram Oghbaei (Ecole de Technologie Superieure)
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| 10:50 – 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| Themed Session | ||
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Operational AI Downscaling System and Its Performance in Predicting Extreme Temperatures in Japan during Summer 2025 |
Fuki Kudo (Weathernews Inc.)
Jumpei Fujino (Weathernews Inc.)
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| 11:40 – 12:00 |
AI-Driven Innovation in Temperature Prediction: Anomaly Detection in SYNOP and TAF Forecasts Using ECMWF Products – A Case Study from Jordan
Online presentation |
Ibrahim Hadyeh (Jordan Meteorological Department)
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| 12:00 – 12:20 | Comparing AI and NWP operational forecasts for the energy sector for winter 2025/26 |
Isla Finney (Lake Street Consulting Ltd)
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| 12:20 – 12:40 | Medium-Range Temperature Regime Transitions over Montenegro’s Complex Terrain: A Comparison of AI and NWP Forecasts |
Aleksandar Zecevic (IHMS of Montenegro)
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| 12:40 – 13:00 | Comparing AIFS and high-resolution IFS (4.4km) simulations for 2-m temperature extremes: when does the ML model excel and when does resolution matter? |
Estibaliz Gascon (ECMWF)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
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Closing session
Final session |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Interactive session | |
| 15:00 – 15:40 | Closing invited speaker | |
| 15:40 – 15:50 | Closing remarks | |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Tea and coffee | |