{"id":627,"date":"2015-01-04T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:13:29","slug":"eswd-cooperations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/european-severe-weather-database\/eswd-cooperations\/","title":{"rendered":"ESWD Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESSL is happy to be able to count on several partners who assist in the collection and quality control of European severe weather data.<\/p>\n<h2><em>National Weather Services<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics &#8211; ZAMG (Austria)<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus Department of Meteorology &#8211; Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Czech Hydrometeorological Institute &#8211; CHMI (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li>Deutscher Wetterdienst &#8211; DWD (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Finnish Meteorological Institute &#8211; FMI (Finland)<\/li>\n<li>Institute for Hydrometeorology and Seismology of Montenegro &#8211;\u00a0HMZCG (Montenegro)<\/li>\n<li>Meteorological and Hydrological Service &#8211; DHMZ (Croatia)<\/li>\n<li>National Meteorological Administration &#8211; NMA (Romania)<\/li>\n<li>Slovak HydroMeteorological Institute &#8211; SHMU (Slovakia)<\/li>\n<li>Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia &#8211; RHMSS (Serbia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em>Voluntary Observer Networks (VON)<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SKYWARN Polska (Poland, since 07.03.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Amateur Meteorological Society &#8211; AMS, <em>former Skywarn CzechoSlovak<\/em> (Czech Republic, since 09.04.2015)<\/li>\n<li>SKYWARN Austria (Austria, since 04.06.2015)<\/li>\n<li>SKYWARN Deutschland (Germany, since 04.06.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Lovci na oluje Dubrovnik (Storm chasers Dubrovnik) (Croatia, since 25.06.2016)<\/li>\n<li>PRETEMP &#8211; Previsione temporali (Italy, since 14.10.2018), <em>merged with Associazione ONLUS MeteoNetwork (Italy, since 23.05.2015) in 2018<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Estonian Thunderstorm Observers Network (Estonia, since 06.01.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Th\u00fcringer Storm Chaser e.V. (Germany, since 27.11.2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, Keraunos (France) is a contributor of tornado data from France to the ESWD (since 14.06.2019).<\/p>\n<h2><em>Voluntary Observer Persons (VOP)<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Stavros Dafis (Greece, since 06.03.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Mario Sekuli\u0107 (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo, all since 13.03.2015 and Slovenia, since 13.07.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. George Papavasileiou (Greece, since 26.03.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Konstantin Kazakov (Belarus, Russian Federation, Ukraine, all since 11.06.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Darian Martens (France, since 27.09.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Manuel Oberhuber (Austria, Italy, both since 31.10.2015, Germany, Switzerland, both since 10.09.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Fran\u00e7ois Paul (France (only historical reports), since 13.12.2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Marco Cisar (Austria, since 13.03.2016)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Bas van der Ploeg (Belgium, Netherlands, both since 18.06.2016)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Mario Marcello Miglietta (Italy, since 24.09.2016)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Klodian Zaimi (Albania, since 31.10.2016, Serbia and\/incl. Kosovo, since 21.08.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Kairo Kiitsak (Estonia, since 07.01.2017, Latvia, Lithuania, both since 18.05.2018, and Finland, since 27.03.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Nicolas Baluteau (France, since 05.03.2017, Belgium French-speaking Wallonia region, since 04.12.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Igor Kibal`chich (Ukraine, incl. Krym\/Crimea peninsula, since 15.07.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Yurii Litvinov (Ukraine, incl. Krym\/Crimea peninsula, since 30.09.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Oliver Schlenczek (Germany, since 19.11.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Markus Wegg\u00e4sser (Germany, since 20.11.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Erik Christmann (Germany, since 02.12.2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Thomas Pfeifhofer (Austria, since 25.03.2018)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Lars Lowinski (United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, all since 23.06.2018 and Belgium, since 22.05.2021)<\/li>\n<li>Mr.\u00a0Ioannis Matsangouras (Greece, since 05.01.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. <span class=\"subject allowTextSelection\">Artur Surowiecki<\/span> (Poland, since 27.03.2019)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subject allowTextSelection\">Mr. Igor Laskowski<\/span> (Poland, since 28.03.2019)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subject allowTextSelection\">Mr. Wojciech Pilorz<\/span> (Poland, since 29.03.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Alexander Keul (Austria, since 16.11.2019)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Igor Azhigov (Russia &#8211; Russian Federation, since 25.01.2020)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Abdullah Kahraman (Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Turkey; especially historical data, since 24.02.2020)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Hendrik Sass (Germany, since 31.10.2021)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Niclas Lindberg Jensen (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, all since 28.01.2022)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Lukas Sudvajus (Lithuania, since 27.12.2022)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Oliver Kox (Germany, since 11.12.2023)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Martins Berg\u0161teins (Latvia, since 02.12.2024)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Alexandr Da\u0219evschii (Moldova, since 22.12.2024)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Fedor (Slovakia, since 03.04.2025)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. J\u00f3zsef Koh\u00fat (Hungary, Slovakia, both since 23.04.2025)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Miroslav \u0160inger (Slovakia, since 12.01.2026)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Louis Knowles (Ireland, <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">United Kingdom<\/span>, both since 29.01.2026)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Christopher Valois-Barthe (France, since 04.06.2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSL is happy to be able to count on several partners who assist in the collection and quality control of European severe weather data. 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