EMS News

The revised EMS Sustainable Meetings Policy as laid down here below is prepared for the upcoming EMS Council Session (26 August) and General Assembly (6 September) for approval. We invite all EMS Members and the community to provide feedback on this draft. Thank you.[more]

The EMS2026 will take place as a hybrid event at the Jaarbeurs Conference centre in Utrecht & online from 6 to 11 September 2026. The full session programme with details about talks, posters, times, rooms is available. Early registration is possible until 3 August. [more]

The award goes to the innovative project: “Workshop with Instant AI Urban Climate Modelling and LEGO®” initiated by Prof. Dr. Lesley De Cruz and developed together with her dedicated research team. This outstanding initiative successfully bridges complex meteorological science and public outreach, making the invisible dynamics of the Urban Heat Island effect both tangible and actionable for audiences of all ages.[more]

Eva Rodríguez Nieto is recognized for her report “Engineering and nature transform the fight against flooding”, in which she examines the global evolution of flood risk management one year after the catastrophic DANA storm that struck Valencia, Spain, in October 2024. The piece highlights a modern, holistic paradigm shift in civil engineering and urban planning.[more]

This year, the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL), turns 20! A nonprofit research organisation dedicated to severe convective storm research and education was formally founded in September 2006. However, the idea behind this initiative had emerged several years earlier.[more]

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]