The end of the project is approaching and we are planning our final event for the project. This is planned to take place over two days and is structured around the main themes of CONFESS. When: afternoon of 5th of March and morning of 6th of March Where: ECMWF offices in Reading (UK) The agenda…
The end of 2023 was a busy time for CONFESS as we presented the findings of the project at a number of high profile international events. All our individual presentations for the project are available on our webpage. Here is a summary of some the most recent ones: The ECMWF Annual Seminar on Earth System…
CONFESS was actively present in the Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Summit, which took place in Reading during the 3rd -7th of July 2023, to celebrate the success of 10 years of the S2S WWRP-WCRP program and look at the future. 200 people attended the meeting in person and about 50 attended the meeting online, although…
CONFESS work has progressed well. It has accomplished major developments with promising prospects for being implemented in next generation of C3S, and partners are fully engaged with the evaluation of results. However, due to a variety of factors we have experienced some delay, which due to the interconnected nature of the CONFESS workflow. Because a…
Featured Article titled: Updating land and aerosol properties to improve reanalyses and seasonal forecasts Authors: Magdalena A. Balmaseda; Tim Stockdale; Souhail Boussetta; Retish Senan; Gianpaolo Balsamo; Angela Benedetti; Tanya Warnaars Newsletter Number 174 – Winter 2023 (Published in January 2023) To access the full article please visit: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/81330-newsletter-no-174-winter-202223
CONFESS hosted its second General Assembly with project partners on the Wednesday, 1st December 2021 from 09:00 UK Time. All work package leaders and most of the project team members were present and presented the progress of the project. Presentations from the meeting are available below. Time Item Presenter 9:00-9:05 Welcome Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (ECMWF)…
The month of May will be a busy time for the CONFESS consortium who will be presenting at a number of prestigious international events. The end of May is when EGU will hold their Annual General Assembly meeting, which is the same week as the ESA-Living Planet Symposium. These events will see our consortium members…
CONFESS hosted its first public General Assembly online on the Wednesday, 1st December 2021 from 09:00 UK Time. Over 70 participants from Europe and beyond heard about the objectives and progress of the project. Presentations from the meeting are available below. 9:00 – 9:40 Welcome and Introduction to the GA Time Presenter Presentation 9:00-9:10 Jean-Noel…
CONFESS has completed its first nine months of its planned activities, resulting in 7 deliverables, of which 8 are publicly available. CONFESS partners are busy preparing first data sets in the form of harmonized CAMS and CMIP6 datasets for aerosols that are due to be published in October 2021. Regular meetings are taking place both…
The first set of deliverables have been published on the website. These include: D4.2 Project Website D4.3 Dissemination and Exploitation Plan D4.4 Media and Communication Plan All deliverables can be downloaded from the results pages here.
The first deliverable has officially been submitted to the EU. D4.1 Risk and Quality Management Plan sets out the baseline of internal quality management including the identification of Key Performance Indicators and related metrics that will help the project to measure its progress.
The CONFESS project has officially started on the 1st of November 2020. Led by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and with Partners Meteo-France, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and the Italian National Research Council, the project will run for 36 months with the aim to improve the reliability and usability of Copernicus Climate Change Service…
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