The ECMWF's most obvious advantage has been in raw computing power.

欧洲中期天气预报中心的强势之处在于它那了得的运算能力。

The ECMWF also deserves credit for deploying its computational force wisely.

欧洲中期天气预报中心对其强大的运算能力使用分布得当亦值称赞。

Moreover, giving the ECMWF a worthy competitor would probably lead to better forecasts overall.

三来欧洲中期天气预报中心是个劲敌，与之竞争或许能全面促进美国天气预报的发展。

Weather forecasters in America have full access to the ECMWF's model.

美国的气象预报人员具有使用欧洲中期天气预报中心该模型的全部权限。

By November it is expected to run on a faster computer than the ECMWF's.

今年11月，全球预报系统有望将换装比欧洲中期天气预报中心运行速度更快的超级电脑。

On a standard measure—predicting the altitude at which the atmospheric pressure is half as great as at sea level—it still trails the ECMWF model.

但在一项对某纬度大气压强是海平面一半的标准测试中，全球预报系统仍落后于欧洲中期天气预报中心.

A week before that storm's landfall in 2012, the ECMWF predicted it would veer towards the coast while the GFS showed it remaining at sea.

三年前，在飓风桑迪登陆的一周前，欧洲中期天气预报中心预测飓风会径直朝沿海运动，但全球预报系统却预测它会停留在海面。

The ECMWF's computing muscle also lets it start its projections with a replay of the past 12 hours of weather, using 40m data points derived from observations collected by ground stations, aeroplanes, balloons and satellites.

借助其厉害的运算能力，欧洲中期天气预报中心能对过去12小时的气象云图做回放，从而使其天气预报更为准确。云图回放时计算机要处理4000万个数据点，这些数据都是从地面观测站点，气象飞机，气球及气象卫星收集获得的。

For more than two decades the Global Forecast System (GFS), the leading weather-prediction model produced in the United States, has been notably less accurate than its chief competitor, published by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

较之二者，全球预报系统所得成功虽微不足道，但美国气象界仍对此大呼叫好。全球预报系统是美国最为先进的天气预报模型，二十多年来，它发布的天气预测准确性显然落后于它的劲敌--欧洲中期天气预报中心。