EMS News

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]

EMS Young Scientist Award 2024: Bianca Mezzina

The recipient of the EMS Young Scientist Award 2024 is Bianca Mezzina, Italy, currently working at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She was nominated with the publication “Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop”.[more]

EMS Annual Meeting 2024 programme is live

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society will take place as a hybrid event at the Historical University of Barcelona & online from 2 to 6 September 2024. The full session program is online and an early registration is possible until 22 July. [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]

What does AI mean for weather forecasting?

The WeatherPod team has been developing  a new in depth focus on Artifical Intelligence and weather forecasting, with three new episodes to view and hear: an interview about ‘AI for Numerical Weather Prediction’, the second about developing physics-based trustworthy AI methods, and the third episode about [more]

Introducing the new Journal of the EMS

The EMS is excited to announce the launch of the new Journal of the EMS: JEMS is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal, publishing international research and review articles of general interest and relevance about weather, climate and related fields.[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]