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A quarter of a century: The EMS@25

The EMS was formally established in September 1999 in Norrköping, At the EMS2024 opening session we will use the opportunity to look back at what the EMS has achieved, what role it plays today within the European meteorological community and where its future lies. We have invited personalities who have been involved in the development of the EMS over the last quarter of a century.[more]

First season of the EMS Webinar series

The first series of EMS Webinars was held this spring, with five very different, but all highly interesting topics and great speakers. Revisit the events on our YouTube Channel. The upcoming EMS Council and General Assembly sessions will decide if and how the event series will continue.[more]

ECMWF Forecast User Side Event at EMS2024

ECMWF is excited to be running a side event at EMS2024 to complement its annual Using ECMWF’s Forecasts (UEF) event. This side event will consist of four sessions, each session will have a focal topic for discussion, two sessions will have a moderated attendance and two will be drop-in sessions open to all.[more]

MeteoXchange Conference 2024

The virtual MeteoXchange conference, organised by early career scientists from several European countries, took place for the third time at the beginning of April.For two days, young scientists from all over the world had the opportunity to exchange ideas and present their scientific research in the fields of meteorology and climatology, and this year an entire session was also dedicated to hydrology.[more]

EMS Webinar: The operationalisation of climate projections

The EMS Webinar series continues. Our speaker this time will be Ricardo García Herrera, a Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He will show how testimonies of weather and sea conditions since the early times of the sailing era were kept, how they can be converted [more]

Workshop on Mindful Climate Communication

This half-day workshop will be held as a pre-event to the EMS2024 on 1 September in Barcelona. The title reflects the fact that we want to raise awareness of the diverse psychological and social components that are involved in climate communication. It is funded by the EMS and the FutureMED COST action. Registration opens in the coming days.[more]

EMS Webinar: Seamen records of past climate

The EMS Webinar series continues. Our speaker this time will be Ricardo García Herrera, a Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He will show how testimonies of weather and sea conditions since the early times of the sailing era were kept, how they can be converted [more]

EMS Technology Achievement Award 2024 for EMADDC

The EMADDC team has demonstrated that an opportunistic use of aircraft data can be turned into a well calibrated, rich source of upper air observations, and that, through international collaboration by EUMETNET, these can be provided as a valuable service to the aeronautical and meteorological communities.[more]

S. Zilitinkevich Award 2024 for Aijun Ding

Professor Aijun Ding of the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China, has been selected to receive the S. Zilitinkevich Memorial Award 2024. He has made extraordinary contributions to the understanding of the aerosol-planetary boundary layer (PBL) interaction and its application …[more]