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

http://stadtmuseum.wiener-neustadt.at

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)

Click here to download the latest ESSL Newsletter 2015/2 in PDF format.

This is Thilo Kühne, our database quality control manager.

The European Severe Storms Laboratory’s mission is to make Europe more resilient to severe weather. We carry out research on extreme weather and support the research community by operating the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD.eu) and (co-) organizing the European Conferences on Severe Storms (ECSS.eu). With the ESSL Testbed, we provide a facility to evaluate forecast tools and offer training to Europe’s weather forecasters.