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.
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.
See what EWOB users report within a few hours when winter weather strikes:
The latest EWOB reports can be found here.
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.
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:
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.
