European Severe Storms Laboratory

ESSL is a non-profit research institute, seated in Wessling (Germany).

Our mission is to make Europe more resilient against severe weather by performing research on severe convective storms and extreme weather events, and facilitating such research by operating the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD.eu), (co-) organizing the European Conferences on Severe Storms (ECSS.eu). With the ESSL Testbed, our Austria-based subsidiary ESSL-Science and Training provides a facility to test forecast tools, and offers training to Europe's weather forecasters.

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ESSL Testbed registration has opened

Participant registration and updated information can be accessed here.

The ESSL Science and Training signed contracts with Wiener Neustadt

Tuesday February 3, 2012 Wiener Neustadt’s mayor Bernhard Müller handed over the rental contracts of the ESSL Research and Training Centre to Director of Operations, Alois M. Holzer, and Assistant to the Board, Magdalena Pichler. Read more

The ESSL Testbed

A new project is being planned in June 2012, which will bring European forecasters and researchers who deal with severe thunderstorms closer together than ever before.  Read more about the ESSL Testbed.

Nikolai Dotzek Award and Heino Tooming Award

At the 6th European Conference of Severe Storms, the first Nikolai Dotzek Award was presented to Paul Markowski, and the third Heino Tooming award to Mária Putsay, Martin Setvák, André Simon and Jochen Kerkmann. Read more...