On our ESSL Testbed Blog, the presentations schedule for this week has been updated. Everyone can join these presentations remotely.

Presenters will be Helge Tuschy and Ulrich Blahak (both DWD, Germany), and Thomas August (EUMETSAT).

The latest ESSL Newsletter contains the following topics:

• ESWD summary of 2017. As an example, over 16,000 reports of severe wind gusts were entered to the database last year.
• Five new peer-reviewed publications related to ESSL research have been published recently.
• New training events have been fixed in the past few days, including tailored events for aviation meteorology.

You can download the full newsletter here.

On 11 June 2018 the new edition of the ESSL Testbed started in our ESSL Research and Training Centre in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. The ESSL Testbed is fully booked out.

You can follow our activities via our daily Testbed Blog entries here.

The Tue-Fri 9 UTC weather briefings are broadcast via BlueJeans. Please follow the instructions here to join our online briefings.

At least 34 fatalities in Wiener Neustadt tornado: Our ESSL paper on the research method for historical tornado cases just appeared in the EGU journal NHESS today:

Holzer, A. M., Schreiner, T. M. E., and Púčik, T.: A forensic re-analysis of one of the deadliest European tornadoes, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 1555-1565, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1555-2018, 2018.

https://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/18/1555/2018/

(open access)

The last 2017 edition of our ESSL Newsletter is out. Read more about the successful ECSS2017, our new researcher Chris Castellano and the upcoming activities in 2018.

Previous ESSL Newsletters can be found here.

ESSL Research Associate Christopher Castellano

Online registration for the ESSL Testbed 2018,

for the seminars “Forecasting Severe Convection I”
and “Forecasting Severe Convection II” (this time with Prof. Paul Markowski from PSU),

for the new seminar “Forecasting Convective Precipitation and Flash Floods” (by Prof. Russ Schumacher from CSU)

as well as for the third “Workshop on Tornado and Windstorms Damage Assessment” is now open.

All events are listed here with links to the event descriptions and the registration pages. In the past year some activities were booked out already in early spring. It is therefore advisable to reserve your place as soon as possible.

During the closing session of the ECSS2017 in Pula, Croatia, the following ECSS awards were presented by ESSL:

• Best Oral Presentation Jury Award
• Best Poster Jury Award
• Best Oral Presentation Audience Award
• Best Poster Audience Award

The awardees are listed here.

Best Oral Presentation Jury Award: Chernokulsky, Alexander; Kurgansky, Michael; Mokhov, Igor; Selezneva, Evgeniya; Shikhov, Andrey; Azhigov, Igor; Zakharchenko, Denis; Antonescu, Bogdan; Kühne, Thilo. The modern climatology of Northern Eurasia tornadoes and waterspouts

At the ECSS2017 the Heino Tooming Award (about) was presented to Gatzen, Christoph (Germany); Kreitz, Michaël (France); Leprince, Sébastien (France); Schielicke, Lisa (Germany); Rabrenović, Maja (Serbia); and Enno, Sven-Eric, for their work entitled “Combined analysis of severe convective wind gusts in European data sets”.

Tooming Awardees 2017

At the 9th European Conference on Severe Storms in Pula, Croatia, Dr. Joshua Michael Aaron Ryder Wurman was awarded the fourth Nikolai Dotzek Award by the ESSL Executive Board. Dr. Wurman has been given the award for

• his work on radar techniques including bistatic radar and mobile radars,
• his groundbreaking work in developing the Doppler-on-Wheels radars that were first operated in the large field program VORTEX in the mid 1990’s,
• the outstanding research he has done with the Doppler-on-Wheels and the work which supervised:

This research has revealed the structure of flow in tornadoes in extreme detail; it has also contributed to important new insight into the immediate environment of tornadoes, and into other weather phenomena that the DoWs have scanned around the world.
The scientific community owes a lot to Dr. Josh Wurman for creating an abundance of research opportunities with the Doppler-on-Wheels data, and for having inspired many future researchers around the world.

Nikolai Dotzek Awardee 2017: Dr. Joshua Wurman

Dr. Wurman is affiliated with the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Read more: about the Nikolai Dotzek Award.

These are the official ECSS conference photos:

(c) ESSL, Thomas Schreiner

(c) ESSL, Katja Dorninger

Full resolution:  Photo 1    Photo 2