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The recipient of the EMS Tromp Award for outstanding achievement in biometeorology 2026 is Coral Salvador of the University of Bern, awarded for the publication on “Analyzing the effects of drought at different time scales on cause-specific mortality in South Africa”, investigating the link between different types of droughts and cause-specific mortality in South Africa. The study of Coral Salvador and her colleagues sheds light on how age and drought duration influence population vulnerability, filling a critical gap in human health research.[more]

On Saturday 30 May our beloved and highly appreciated colleague and active EMS member Victoria Sinclair died in a terrible accident during a hiking tour in the Pyrenees at the age of only 42, in the prime of her life and career.[more]

The eighth and final paper is entitled Decades of science results and new technologies related to measurements of Earth’s Radiation Budget from space and a pathway for continuity of observations, authored by Thomas Vonder Haar, Peter Pilewskie, Maria Hakuba and Stanley Kidder. This contribution is a concise discussion of Earth Radiation Budget measurements from satellites – a research topic Ehrhard Raschke pioneered with colleagues – and a clear outlook toward the future.[more]

Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Spain, was awarded for the publication “Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood,” published in Nature Communications. The publication is of extraordinary interest both to the meteorological community and to society at large.[more]