ECSS letters of schedule sent out

The scientific programme committee of the ECSS was very active during April and May checking all the submitted abstracts. The letters of acceptance were sent out on 28 May to those who submitted abstracts for the conference. The letters of schedule (including the type of presentation – oral or poster) were sent out on 7 June 2015.

The conference will take place in Wiener Neustadt, located just south of Vienna between the Alps and Lake Neusiedl, and easy to reach from Vienna airport. We expect an exciting week that will feature all aspects of severe storms, ranging from their forecasting to climatological aspects and from storm detection by radar and satellite to their impacts.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Greg Carbin (Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK) and George Bryan (UCAR, Boulder, CO).

On Wednesday, a panel discussion will address the challenges of storm forecasting in Europe.

In addition, there is an extensive programme of social side events. The Local Organizing Committee and the Scientific Programme Committee are looking forward to welcome you in September in Wiener Neustadt.

Follow this link to the ECSS conference information page.

Successful ESSL Testbed 2015

Although weather wasn’t very cooperative during some days, participants of the ESSL Testbed 2015 were able to test new or even experimental forecasting and warning tools. You can look back to the activities in our Testbed Blog.

General information about this unique facility in Europe can be found here.

Damage Assessment Workshop in Review

From 1 to 5 September 2014 ESSL organized a workshop dedicated to the field of forensic meteorology: The first two days were dominated by expert presentations and very active discussions. On Wednesday and Thursday the whole team went to Slovenia and Italy to recent damage sites. Participants split up into four groups, three persons each group, and went into the field in order to assess damage to buildings and trees.

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ESSL General Assembly 2014

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.

ECSS2015: First Announcement

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.