ems-message October 2018 : European Meteorological Society

19/10/2018

The Isobars!

On the 26th of July 2018 “The Isobars”, Met Éireann’s choir conducted by Aoife Murray and accompanied by Dónal Black, presented “Summer Sounds: A lunchtime of Beach Boys, banjos, bassoons and begonias” at the National[more]

19/10/2018

EMS2018 from the perspective of Young Scientist Award winner Georgios Varlas

This year was my first time attending the EMS annual meeting, held in Budapest in September, and it was a great experience. It was a week full of opportunities to learn about the activities of[more]

18/10/2018

Finnish Summer Science Camp

A Summer Science Camp at the Heureka Science Center in Vantaa, Finland, introduced meteorology to children aged between 7 and 16 years (i.e. grades 1 to 9 of the Finnish school system). The Camp teachers were[more]

18/10/2018

New IABM President Jay Trobec

The International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM) represents hundreds of weather presenters in dozens of countries. We work for television stations, national meteorological services, and even private sector weather companies. While we have different responsibilities,[more]

14/10/2018

Interview with ACAM Member Marc Prohom Duran

EMS LC: Is your job related to meteorology?

Yes, I’m the head of the Department of Climatology at the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC). The SMC is the official meteorological service of the Catalan Government, and it was established in 1921.[more]

10/10/2018

September Tweet of the Month

We featured our first “tweet of the month” in August. Given the significance of September for EMS, the month in which we hold our Annual Meeting, we have decided not to restrict the September tweet of the month to a single tweet. Instead we have included a selection of tweets which used the hashtag #emsannual2018. [more]

01/10/2018

Interview of the month: Associazione Italiana di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e Meteorologia

Interview with the AISAM President Dino Zardi

EMS LC: If you were to describe your society in one sentence, what would you say?

AISAM: Our society aims to support and promote the development and promotion[more]

Rasmus Benestad at the EMS2011 Media Session

17/09/2018

Rasmus Benestad’s take on EMS-2018

This article by Rasmus Benestad, co-founder of RealClimate.org, is reproduced here by kind permission of the author. He is a climate scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and a member of Oxford Research Encyclopedia advisory board on climate sciences.[more]

Poster by Peter Kaverla, selected for the Outstanding Poster Award 2018

13/09/2018

Outstanding Poster Award 2018 for Peter Kalverla

The selection committee decided to assign the Outstanding Poster Award 2018 to Peter Kalverla of the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, for the Poster A North Sea climatology of anomalous wind events.

Citation

This outstanding poster describes a new way to define realistic inflow fields based on weather pattern clustering to be used for the computation of energy production with off-shore wind turbines instead of idealized wind conditions. [more]

EMS Vice President Jean-Pierre Chalon and Treasurer Heinke Schlünzen elected for three year term

12/09/2018

EMS Council and General Assembly meet in Budapest

The decisions ….

The EMS Council at its 39th Session on 2 September 2018 in Budapest re-elected Jean-Pierre Chalon (France) as Vice-President and Heinke Schlünzen (Germany) as Treasurer for another term of three years until[more]