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.
You can follow our daily activities at the ESSL Testbed on our Testbed Blog.
The ESSL Testbed 2017 welcomes all participants of this years’ edition.
We are proud to present an interesting selection of leading-edge forecasting and warning tools and we are thankful to all participating partners. New this year are for example a number of products from the EUMETSAT Nowcasting SAF.
You can follow our daily activities in the ESSL Testbed Blog or in our online sessions during the testbed period:
Tue – Thu at 9 UTC: Online severe weather briefings and daily expert lecture.
Fri at 9 UTC: Severe weather online briefing only.
At the online meeting times you can join us here in WebEX with the session number “953 698 353” and the password “testbed”. This service is kindly provided by EUMETCAL.
The threat of tornadoes in Europe is not widely recognized, despite causing injuries, fatalities, and damages.
A paper was published in BAMS with the title “TORNADOES IN EUROPE – An Underestimated Threat“.
The authors: Bogdan Antonescu, David M. Schultz, Alois M. Holzer, and Pieter Groenemeijer.
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.
