NEW HOME FOR ECMWF ON UNIVERSITY OF READING CAMPUS AGREEDThe University of Reading campus is set to become home to the largest cluster of weather and climate scientists in the world, following agreement to build a new state-of-the-art headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus.The plans to move the headquarters of ECMWF, currently located around a mile away on Shinfield Road, Reading, to a new facility adjacent to the University's Department of Meteorology on the Whiteknights campus, were agreed at a meeting of the ECMWF's governing council last week.The new building will create a modern, inspirational and energy-efficient home for ECMWF's headquarters and for its forecasting, research and training functions.Together with the University's Department of Meteorology, and parts of the UK Met Office
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