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)
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:
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
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.
Our latest ESSL Newsletter 2017/3 contains an interview with our ESWD quality control manager Thilo Kühne. There you can also find news on ESSL’s climate research and about the successful Ph.D. dissertation defence of ESSL Senior Trainer, now Dr. Tomáš Púčik.
Thilo Kühne
Dr. Tomáš Púčik
For the seminar “Forecasting Severe Convective Storms I” held by Dr. Tomáš Púčik in our ESSL Research and Training Centre in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from 2 to 6 October 2017, a few remaining places are still available.
The seminar consists of lectures during the morning hours and exercises in the afternoon hours – and thereby is an excellent boost of knowledge for lead forecasters and forecasters in the warnings branch of your weather service.
Airplane pilots are required to perform simulator trainings every year. What about our warning forecasters?
You can register here.
