Using ECMWF's Forecasts Event (UEF2026)
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| Monday, 1 June 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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Registration and opening
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 14:00 – 14:10 |
Welcome
Video recording |
Umberto Modigliani (ECMWF)
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| 14:10 – 14:20 |
Housekeeping and theme
Video recording |
Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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ECMWF updates
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| 14:20 – 15:30 |
ECMWF updates
Presentation slides Video recording |
Michael Sleigh (ECMWF)
Tony McNally (ECMWF)
Eulalie Boucher
Matthieu Chevallier (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
Presentation slides Video recording |
Thomas Haiden (ECMWF)
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
How temperature is forecast at ECMWF
Presentation slides Video recording |
Annelize van Niekerk (ECMWF)
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Posters
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| 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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Themed Session – Temperature forecasting in Europe and beyond
Chair: Emma Pidduck (ECMWF)
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| 09:30 – 09:50 |
How can 2m temperature forecasts possibly go wrong? – an ECMWF perspective
Presentation slides Video recording |
Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
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| 09:50 – 10:10 |
The May 2025 Iceland heatwave: an unprecedented early-season extreme
Presentation slides Video recording |
Kristín Hermannsdóttir (Icelandic Met Office)
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| 10:10 – 10:30 |
Operational management of heat stress and heatwaves in public weather bulletins using ECMWF products in Lombardy
Presentation slides Video recording |
Gian Paolo Minardi (ARPA Lombardia)
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| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Evaluation of ECMWF 2 m Temperature Forecasts During Extreme Cold Events in Northern Sweden
Presentation slides Video recording |
Antonio Fuentes Moreno (SMHI)
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| 10:50 – 11:00 | Group photo | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break | |
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Themed Session – Temperature forecasting in Europe and beyond
Chair: Umberto Modigliani (ECMWF)
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| 11:30 – 11:50 |
The Exceptional UK Heat Wave of May 2026
Presentation slides Video recording |
Dan Suri (Met Office)
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| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Medium-Range Temperature Regime Transitions over Montenegro’s Complex Terrain: A Comparison of AI and NWP Forecasts
Presentation slides Video recording |
Aleksandar Zecevic (IHMS of Montenegro)
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| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Monitoring and forecasting marine heatwaves at MOi
Presentation slides Video recording |
Amélie Loubet (Mercator Ocean International)
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| 12:30 – 13:00 |
Evaluation of severe temperature events in the medium-range and sub-seasonal range in the ECMWF Severe Event Catalogue
Presentation slides Video recording |
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
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 |
Interactive Activity: Weather Stations part 2
This session will not be livestreamed |
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| 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
Chair: Stijn Vermoote (ECMWF)
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| 09:30 – 10:10 |
Keynote presentation: Climate Services for Health, a critical part of Wellcomes vision to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone
Presentation slides Video recording |
Madeleine Thomson (Wellcome)
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| 10:10 – 10:30 |
Climate and Environmental Digital Twins for Human Health: Leveraging Earth Observation for Compound Climate and Air Quality Extremes Early Warning
Presentation slides Video recording |
Ana Oliveira (CoLAB +ATLANTIC)
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| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Operational national Early Warning heat wave : example of collaboration between health and climate sectors in Senegal
Online presentation Presentation slides Video recording |
Ousmane Ndiaye (African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD))
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| 10:50 – 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 – 11:30 |
Towards human-centric weather forecasting: heat and cold stress indices at ECMWF
Presentation slides |
Claudia Di Napoli (ECMWF)
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| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Thermal Trace: health-related weather and climate monitoring
Presentation slides Video recording |
Rebecca Emerton (ECMWF)
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Themed Session: Seasonal and Sub-seasonal focus
Chair: Frédéric Vitart (ECMWF)
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| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Update about the work of Subgroup to Review User Relevant Sub Seasonal Verification
Presentation slides Video recording |
Anssi Vähämäki (FMI)
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| 12:10 – 12:30 |
ECMWF sub-seasonal forecasts in the Swiss national drought warning system: first operational learnings
Presentation slides Video recording |
Annie Y.-Y. Chang (MeteoSwiss)
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| 12:30 – 13:00 |
Implementation of SEAS6
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Tim Stockdale (ECMWF)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
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Live demonstration and User Voice Corner
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| 14:00 – 14:50 |
Live Demo: interactive apps for exploring extreme event data
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Guy Griffiths (University of Reading)
Matthew Menary (ECMWF)
Sebastian Milinski (ECMWF)
Rebecca Emerton (ECMWF)
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| 14:50 – 15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20 – 15:50 |
Overview of User Voice Corner Survey
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Tim Hewson (ECMWF)
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| 15:50 – 17:00 |
User Voice Corner Breakout Groups
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| Thursday, 4 June 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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GRIB2 Update and Q&A
Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| 09:30 – 10:20 |
GRIB2 – Update and Q&A session
Presentation slides Video recording |
Sebastien Villaume (ECMWF)
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Themed session - Innovation in temperature prediction
Chair: Matthieu Chevallier (ECMWF)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Bias correction for surface atmospheric variables using a statistical modelling approach
Presentation slides Video recording |
Mahmud Hasan Ghani (CMCC)
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| 10:40 – 11:00 |
A Novel Member-By-Member Postprocessing Framework for Ensemble Temperature Forecasts
Online presentation Presentation slides Video recording |
Bahram Oghbaei (Ecole de Technologie Superieure)
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| 11:00 – 11:40 | Coffee break | |
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Themed Session - Innovation in temperature prediction
Chair: Matthieu Chevallier (ECMWF)
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| 11:40 – 12:00 |
Operational AI Downscaling System and Its Performance in Predicting Extreme Temperatures in Japan during Summer 2025
Presentation slides Video recording |
Fuki Kudo (Weathernews Inc.)
Jumpei Fujino (Weathernews Inc.)
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| 12:00 – 12:20 |
AI-Driven Innovation in Temperature Prediction: Anomaly Detection in SYNOP and TAF Forecasts Using ECMWF Products – A Case Study from Jordan
Online presentation Presentation slides Video recording |
Ibrahim Hadyeh (Jordan Meteorological Department)
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| 12:20 – 12:40 |
Comparing AI and NWP operational forecasts for the energy sector for winter 2025/26
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Isla Finney (Lake Street Consulting Ltd)
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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?
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Estibaliz Gascon (ECMWF)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
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Closing session
Final session Chair: Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
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| 14:00 – 14:20 |
About the new curvature diagnostic CURV and some of its uses
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Nigel Roberts (Met Office UK)
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| 14:20 – 14:40 |
Harnessing Geo-Spatial Layers and AI for Extreme Heat Preparedness
Presentation slides Video recording |
Stephanie Rees (Google)
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| 14:40 – 15:20 |
Introducing WEFEX: Forecasting Extreme Weather Risks Across Europe
Presentation slides Video recording |
Kristian Nielsen (The World Energy & Meteorology Council (WEMC))
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| 15:20 – 15:30 |
Closing remarks
Video recording |
Umberto Modigliani (ECMWF)
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| Close with coffee | ||