19 September 2008
France, as part of its Presidency of the European Union, and the European Commission jointly held a Forum in Lille, France, on 16 and 17 September 2008 to mark the launch of the first GMES services. The aim was to provide information about these pre-operational services and to stimulate discussion between providers and users of services.
05 September 2008
The ECMWF annual seminar took place from 1 to 4 September. The title of this year's seminar was: "Parametrization of sub-grid physical processes".
20 June 2008
ECMWF hosted the GRAS Satellite Application Facility (SAF) Workshop on the "Applications of GPS radio occultation measurements" from 16 to 18 June 2008.
10 June 2008
The World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction was hosted by ECMWF from 6 to 9 May 2008, and fully funded through wide-ranging international sponsorship.