European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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| Formation | 1975 |
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| Headquarters | Reading, United Kingdom |
| Website | http://www.ecmwf.int/ |
Coordinates: 51°25′10″N 0°57′03″W / 51.41956°N 0.95077°W
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, ECMWF, is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by most of the nations of Europe and is based at Shinfield Park, Reading, United Kingdom. It operates one of the largest supercomputer complexes in Europe and the world's largest archive of numerical weather prediction data. The Centre is considering an offer from the Italian Government to move ECMWF's data centre to Bologna, Italy. The new site, a former tobacco factory, will be redesigned by gmp architects.
ECMWF was established in 1975, in recognition of the need to pool the scientific and technical resources of Europe's meteorological services and institutions for the production of weather forecasts for medium-range timescales (up to approximately two weeks) and of the economic and social benefits expected from it.
It comprises 22 European countries:
It also has co-operation agreements with other states: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Romania and Slovakia.
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