Upon request of many colleagues the deadline for the ECSS abstract submission was extended to 10 April 2017. This will be a final deadline.
Decisions on travel support grants and acceptance or rejection of conference contributions will be communicated by the ECSS scientific programme committee in the second half of May.
The registration deadline for the ESSL summer school was passed on 30 April 2017. Nevertheless, late registrations are still possible until fully booked.
More information on the ESSL summer school you can find here.
Abstract submission and registration tools for the ECSS are now open. We are very looking forward to many interesting contributions and to a European Conference on Severe Storms that is as vibrant as the previous editions in a scientific and also in a networking sense.
See you in the fabulous venue of the ECSS in Pula, Croatia, the countdown has begun. Please find updated information, abstract submission and the registration portal here.
Just before the end of this ESSL jubilee year 2016 the EWOB app was relaunched. The main improvements are:
Download the European Weather OBserver (EWOB) app here and tell your colleages, friends and family how important your reports are for warning forecasters and researchers!
From 18 to 22 September 2017, the ninth edition of the European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS) will take place in Croatia. ESSL will organize the conference in collaboration with the Croatian HydroMeteorological Institute. Click here for more information…
On 29 June 2016 at 19:00 the grand opening of a photo exhibition on “100 years Wiener Neustadt tornado” takes place in the Stadtmuseum Wiener Neustadt. Alois M. Holzer from ESSL provided expertise to the Museum regarding the selection and interpretation of the damage photographs and will also contribute to the opening programme.
The photo exhibition will be open until 31 July 2016:
Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 10:00 to 16:00
Thu 10:00 – 20:00
Tuesday 7 June 2016 online briefings and expert lectures of this years’ Testbed start at 09:00 UTC with the severe weather forecasts for day 1 and day 2. Join us online via EUMETCAL. The login is free of cost. Just click on the respective event in the provided list and register with your email address.
Thursday 9 June 2016, after the severe weather briefing, Rich Thompson from NOAA will talk about “Anticipating Convective Mode” – a highly relevant topic.
Already on the first day of the ESSL Testbed 2016 a striking example for the potential of high resolution ensembles was found. In this case it is the COSMO-DE-EPS. Find out more here.
At their meeting at ZAMG in Vienna on 13 January 2016 plans to involve ESSL in the Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting EUMETNET programme ASIST (Application oriented analySIS and very short range forecast environmenT) were presented by the EUMETNET programme partners. The project is foreseen to run until December 2017.
Programme partners are encouraged to participate in the ESSL Testbed 2016 and in the ESSL Testbed 2017. An outcome shall be subjective Testbed validation of the different systems.
Verification and testing of ASIST systems as well as training with ASIST systems is foreseen. One of the ASIST goals is to develop Nowcasting training material.
Pieter Groenemeijer and Alois M. Holzer from ESSL together with ASIST representatives at their meeting (at ZAMG in Vienna) on 13 January 2016. (Photo by Georg Pistotnik, ZAMG)