6th European Conference on Severe Storms, ECSS 2011

Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 3-7 October 2011

The conference website and calls for papers will be designed from autumn 2010 on.
Contact: info (at) ecss.essl.org.

Scientific topics

The scope of the conference covers all aspects of severe convective weather. All researchers, operational forecasters and risk or emergency managers interested in the following topics are invited to submit contributions. In light of the global relevance of the conference themes, participants from all over the world are welcome to attend. The ECSS 2011 will deal with the following tentative session topics. Depending on the scope of abstracts received, additional topics may be included later on:

• Theory of convection, atmospheric instability, and synoptic or orographic forcing
• Dynamics, microphysics and electrification of severe storms
• Severe weather climatology and hazard assessment
• Climate change impacts on severe storms, development of adaptation concepts
• Forecasting, nowcasting and warning of severe storms
• Numerical studies, e.g. of convection initiation, storm life cycles and phenomena
• Remote sensing of severe storms, e.g. by satellite, radar, and lightning detection
• Preconvective environment and convection initiation
• (Extra-)tropical cyclones: embedded thunderstorms and large-scale wind fields
• Severe weather reporting and databases, e.g. applied to forecast evaluation
• Socio-economic aspects, e.g. damage analysis, wind speed vs. damage relation
• Socio-economic aspects, e.g. emergency response and risk management, security of critical infrastructures
• Evening session: videos and pictures of severe convective weather