ems-message January 2021 : European Meteorological Society

16/02/2021

MeteoIQ joins the EMS as 31st Associate Member

Dennis Schulze, Managing Director of MeteoIQ is excited about the organization becoming Associate Member of EMS: “The global weather enterprise can only flourish when all stakeholders – private, public and academic – have an open dialogue. The EMS offers an excellent platform for this and we as MeteoIQ are very happy to be part of that …[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]

ECRA webinar: 10 years of climate research

19/01/2021

10 years of ECRA – reflecting on the past and planning for the future

The ECRA webinar on 10 March 2020, 14:30-17:00 CET will discuss the experience of the past decade to see what can be expected in the future. What will climate researchers need in one or five years? How can we prepare best for COP26[more]

07/01/2021

New members on the EMS Committees

Young scientists have volunteered to work on the EMS Committee on Meetings, and the TAA committee has a new chair. We welcome Carola Detring, Peter Kalverla and Victoria Sinclair on the CoM and Robert Mureau as the new head of the TAA committee.[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]