Bright key facts / Deployed
From research to the forecast desk.
ECMWF brought its Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System into operational service.
- AI’s role
- AIFS added machine-learned predictions to the operational toolkit.
- Documented result
- AIFS began running alongside the physics-based IFS on 25 February 2025.
- Important limitation
- Deployment is not a guarantee of superiority for every variable, place, or event.