In this paper, an improved seventh-order WENO (WENO-Z7) scheme is suggested by extending the 5th-order WENO scheme of Borges et al[R. Borges, M. Carmona, B. Costa, W. S. Don, An improved weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws, J. Comput. Phys. 227(2008) 3191-3211]. The sufficient condition for seventh-order accuracy is described for the new smoothness indic...