Katrin Pfeifer has studied past severe storms across Europe from a cultural historical viewpoint. The resulting book – in German language – with a focus on events in Austria and in the Netherlands has now become available. For more information, follow this link.

Since May 2014, ESSL is engaged in the new EU-project RAIN. The Lab leads Work Package 2 on “Hazard Identification”. ESSL’s Director Pieter Groenemeijer explains the hazard identification activities in this interview on the project website.

More information is available on the RAIN project website.

The ESSL General Assembly (GA) 2014 took place as a sidemeeting of the 14th European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Meeting and the 10th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC) in Prague (Czech Republic) on 8th October 2014. The Annual Report 2013 can be found in the “Publications” section of this webpage. Hans-Joachim Koppert was re-elected as Advisory Councillor for the period 2015 – 2018.

The official first announcement for the 8th European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS) was published. The ECSS2015 will take place in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from 14 to 18 September 2015. As a sidemeeting of this conference, the next ESSL General Assembly (GA) will be hold on 13 September 2015, starting at 17:00. Updated information on the ECSS2015 can be found here.