Blog : European Meteorological Society

16/02/2021

Call for first use cases: AI for NDM

The newly established Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management aims at building a community of experts and stakeholders to explore current practices and untapped potential in the use of AI to support data, modelling, or communication of natural disaster. First uses cases will be selected at meetings 15-17 March.[more]

Towards Responsible AI for Disaster Risk Management (photo rights: ITU)

19/01/2021

AI for Natural Disaster Management

A Focus Group on Artificail Intelligence for Natural Disaster Management (FG-AI4NDM) has been lauched under the auspices of ITU/WMO/UNEP. The focus group is building a community of experts and stakeholders to explore current practices (and untapped potential) in the use of AI to support[more]

Science Meeting of MMT youth section on 25 April 2015

18/12/2020

Long history – pros and cons: the youth section of the Hungarian Met Society

The youth section of the Hungarian Met Society was established in 1957 and supported students and early career scientists in training their professional skills. After the membership has been reducing over many years, new initiatives are now taken to connect young professionals[more]

17/12/2020

Publication: Weather and climate information supporting sustainable development goals

Owing to a lack of understanding, and data being unavailable, unusable or unsuitable, weather and climate information is currently underutilised in Sustainable Development Goal implementation. Improvements are essential in knowledge brokering, clarifying responsibilities, multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder governance arrangements and research on systemic risks and decisions.[more]

26/10/2020

EMS Council and General Assembly held online

The EMS Council and General Assembly met on 3 and 9 September 2020, respectively. Normally these meetings are held in conjunction with the yearly EMS conference, but due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions the Bratislava conference was cancelled. The following decisions and actions were agreed:[more]

23/10/2020

This was the EMS DigitalMETDialogue

The first EMS online event was organised in collaboration with PRIMET and ECOMET as three webinars on highly relevant topics of the met. and climate community: Open Science, Open Data, with 165 attendees; COVID-19 and Meteorology, with 135 attendees; and Enabling the Weather Enterprise in Europe for the 21st century, with 120 attendees.[more]

20/09/2020

DigitalMETDialogue: recodings and presentations

The first EMS DigitalMETDialogue was well received by the community that would normally have met at the EMS Annual Meeting in Bratislava. 135 people attended the Open science, open data Session on Tuesday[more]