ECMWF appoints Heini Wernli as new Fellow
ECMWF has appointed Professor Heini Wernli from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich to three-year Fellowship. Professor Heini Wernli has been selected because of the outstanding quality of his scientific work and his relevance to ECMWF’s strategic goal of improving forecast skill in the medium and extended range.
Heini Wernli researches the dynamics, climatology and predictability of weather systems in the mid-latitudes, and transport processes in the atmosphere (water, dust, trace gases). Professor Wernli and his group already work with external page ECMWF data, particularly the ERA-Interim reanalysis, to test theoretical ideas about the interaction between clouds and dynamics and examine how changes to models affect forecasts. ECMWF launched its Fellowship Programme in 2014 to foster collaboration with renowned international scientists.