@manual{81222, keywords = {Annual Report}, author = {ECMWF}, title = {Annual Report 2020}, abstract = {

The report reviews achievements at ECMWF during a year that will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts.  

Developments include a wide-ranging forecasting system upgrade which has improved global weather forecasts and substantially improved analyses and forecasts in the stratosphere; a first step in a move towards free and open data; major contributions to Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation programme; progress towards the opening of the new data centre in Italy; and the decision to open additional ECMWF premises in Germany. 

}, year = {2021}, journal = {ECMWF Annual Report}, month = {06/2021}, publisher = {ECMWF}, address = {Reading}, url = { }, language = {eng}, }