The official first announcement for the 11th European Conference on Severe Storms, to be held in Bucharest from 8 to 12 May 2023, was published by ESSL today.
Under this link you can find the ECSS2023 First Announcement as PDF file. Please feel free to spread it further.
Taken in the poster area during today’s morning coffee break, the official ECSS2019 Conference Photo is now available for download here:
It also has been published on the ECSS webage.
The full ECSS programme has been published and last preparations are being accomplished for a fruitful 10th edition of the European Conference on Severe Storms in Kraków, Poland, from 4 to 8 November 2019.
ECSS2019 webpage with travel information, online programme and PDF programme overview
See you soon in the very centre of Kraków!
For the ESWD work it is a common question: How can you best estimate and rate the hail size based on photo evidence. The most typical type of hail image is a photo of a person holding a hail stone in the hand.
Therefore the ESWD team around Thilo Kühne compiled a new hail size comparison table. It allows to estimate the hail size in centimeters based on different comparable objects.
On 3 June the ESSL Testbed 2019 started with a diverse group of participants from Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Czechia.
The testbed data interface was improved by an enhanced roaming sounding tool and by additional and redesigned model maps. Daily updates are provided on the ESSL Testbed Blog.
Participants of the Seminar Dynamics and Prediction of Severe Convection (FSC II) by Prof. Yvette Richardson from Penn State University, finished testimonials with the best mean grade (90.2 %) so far since ESSL started its European Testimonials in 2017.
Congratulations to all forecasters! We are proud of you and believe that severe storm warnings in your countries will be in good hands.
The Second Announcement and Call for Papers for the 10th European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS2019) has been published.
Details on registration and abstract submission can be found on our ECSS webpage: http://ecss.eu
Please note the abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2019
Our local organizing partner IMGW and the European Severe Storms Laboratory are looking forward to Kraków! The ECSS is supported by MunichRe, EUMETSAT and the European Meteorological Society EMS.
For the 10th European Conference on Severe Storms to be held from 4 to 8 November 2019 in Kraków, Poland, we have good news for you:
Registration and abstract submission tools for the ECSS2019 are now open.
Please find more information on our ECSS pages here.
The ESSL awarded Dr. Robert Davies-Jones with the Nikolai Dotzek Award for his lifetime achievement. Bob Davies-Jones is the first European to receive this prestigious award, to be presented at the upcoming ECSS in Kraków, Poland, where also the regular 2019 Nikolai Dotzek Award will be given.
Bob Davies-Jones is one of the founders of the modern theoretical description of supercell thunderstorms. Although he is perhaps best known for his contributions on supercell and tornado dynamics, he also has advanced the field of large-scale dynamics and made numerous contributions on basic fluid physics (often centered on one of the most important quantities to analyze tornadoes: vorticity).
Read more here (PDF)
We would like to advertise the following seminars that can still be booked for reduced rates until the end of this month:
Our cornerstone seminar “Forecasting Severe Convection I” by Dr. Tomáš Púčik from 25 to 29 March 2019, which combines lectures with practical forecasting exercises. When this seminar was last held in October, it received a very high mean participant grade of 9.9 (on a scale from 0 to 10). Join and boost your ability in forecasting severe convection!
Our specialized seminar “Aviation Forecasting of Severe Convection” by Dr. Tomáš Púčik from 8 to 12 April 2019. In the past years a growing demand for this forecasting course tailored to aviation forecasters, evolved. At this moment, there are only 3 places left for this course. For autumn 2019 there is another such seminar planned.
Our high-level seminar “Dynamics and Prediction of Severe Convection” (Forecasting Severe Convection II) combines lectures from leading tornado and severe weather researcher Prof. Yvette Richardson from Penn State University in the USA, which practical forecasting exercises. This seminar is especially suited for advanced European forecasters, such as shift leaders, warning meteorologists, and to advanced students of meteorology and academic researchers with an interest in forecasting.
The full ESSL activities calendar for 2019 can be found here.