Remaining places for seminar “Forecasting Severe Convective Storms I”

Posted on 4 Sep 2017 by Alois Holzer

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.

Testbed visits Testbed

Posted on 30 Jun 2017 by Alois Holzer

NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Forecast Program Operations Coordinator Adam Clark presented their state of affairs at the ESSL Testbed on Thursday:

Follow daily ESSL Testbed updates on our Testbed Blog.

An active EWOB day

Posted on 4 Jan 2017 by Alois Holzer

See what EWOB users report within a few hours when winter weather strikes:

The latest EWOB reports can be found here.

ECMWF new ESSL member

Posted on 30 Nov 2016 by Alois Holzer

ECMWF and ESSL enter into a new stage of partnership: on 22 November 2016 the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts officially became a full institutional member of the European Severe Storms Laboratory.

After increasing informal cooperation over the past years this step will facilitate a close collaboration in a number of fields in the future, like in the exploitation of the European Severe Weather Database ESWD.

The ESSL now has 13 full institutional members, most of them national weather services.

RAIN Project projections of severe-weather until 2100: More hail, lightning and floods

Posted on 30 Aug 2016 by Pieter Groenemeijer

Within the RAIN project, ESSL researchers Tomáš Púčik and Pieter Groenemeijer have produced projections of severe weather changes according to the EuroCordex regional climate model ensemble.

The ESSL researchers found that the consensus of the model projections suggested a 10 – 30% increase of severe convective weather events across much of Europe and 30 – 60 % in south-central Europe in the business-as-usual rcp8.5 scenario by the end of the century. These increases would be about half as large in the rcp4.5 scenario that assumes moderate climate change mitigation efforts.

RAIN project partners of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Freie Universität Berlin and the Technical University Delft have investigated other hazards, such as wind storms, floods, forest fire and winter weather.

For more information on the RAIN project, projections of other hazards, and a link to the full report:

Click here

European Weather OBserver app launched!

Posted on 22 Dec 2015 by Pieter Groenemeijer

ESSL has lauched a free app called EWOB (European Weather OBserver) with which one can report and monitor the weather situation around oneself by viewing the reports of others. With the app, you can send a picture along with your report and to share it on Facebook or Twitter. By developing EWOB involves the public in collecting important “big data” regarding severe weather that will help weather forecasters, researchers and risk modellers to improve preparedness against severe weather.

To get the app, search for EWOB on Google Play or in the App Store!

The latest reports you can also see on our web map here.

ECSS Awards 2015

Posted on 23 Sep 2015 by Alois Holzer

The list of ECSS awardees together with their contributions – for best poster, best oral presentation and best student contribution – is now available here.

The awards were presented during the closing ceremony of the ECSS on the 18th of September 2015:

Nikolai Dotzek Award 2015

Posted on 23 Sep 2015 by Alois Holzer

Dr. Harold E. Brooks receives the 3rd Nikolai Dotzek Award.

At the occasion of the 8th European Conference on Severe Storms that was held in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Dr. Harold E. Brooks (National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA) has been awarded the 3rd Nikolai Dotzek Award.

The Nikolai Dotzek Award was established in 2011 in the memory of ESSL’s first director and founding father, Dr. Nikolai Dotzek, who passed away in May 2010.

Dr. Brooks has been given the award for his innumerable and diverse contributions to the science of severe storms, which among many other accomplishments, include

his pioneering work in developing and applying proxy parameters to assess the climatology and risk of severe storms, both regionally and globally.

his contributions in establishing the connection between vertical wind shear in the lower troposphere and the occurrence of tornadoes.

his extensive work and significant progress on verification methods for forecasts of extreme events.

In addition, Dr. Brooks was commended for his support to the European and international communities of severe storm researchers that has resulted in many fruitful collaborations.

A list of all Nikolai Dotzek Awardees is available here.

ECSS Conference Photo

Posted on 22 Sep 2015 by Alois Holzer

The official ECSS 2015 photo is now available here:

Photo (c) Thomas Schreiner, ESSL

Heino Tooming Award 2015

Posted on 21 Sep 2015 by Alois Holzer

At the ECSS in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, the Heino Tooming Award 2015 was presented to

Alexander Keul, Bernhard Brunner, Melanie Korff, Sanjay Sharma, Partha Roy, John Allen, Katie A. Bowden, Mat Said Aini, Abu Bakar Elistina, Mohd Zainal Abidin Ab Kadir, Chandima Gomes and Mateusz Taszarek

for their work entitled

“Severe weather and psychology – Analysis of international survey data”, presented by Dr. Alexander Keul.

Photo: Thomas Schreiner, ESSL

The full list of Heino Tooming Awardees is available here.

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