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Engaging the public, private and academic sectors

The WMO Public-Private Engagement Office was established in January 2020 with the aim to follow-up the Geneva Declaration 2019. The Global Weather Enterprise Forum supports the international engagement between the public, private and academic sectors based on a common goal. Both, PPE and GWE Forum, issue newsletters …[more]

ÖGM Margules Prize 2020: Daniel Fenner

Daniel Fenner from the Institute for Ecology, Department of Climatology at the Technical University of Berlin, was selected to receive the Max Margules Prize of the Austrian Society for Meteorology for his paper “Intra and inter ´local climate zone´ variability of air temperature as observed by crowd sourced citizen weather stations in Berlin”. The work was published in the Meteorologische Zeitschrift, [more]

New web tool to monitor quality of observations

The WMO and ECMWF launched a new web-based interface to help monitor the availability and quality of global meteorological observations. The WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System (WDQMS) monitors the availability and quality of land-based surface and upper-air observations. It is based on near-real-time monitoring information provided by four participating global NWP centres[more]

WMO Statement: The State of the Global Climate in 2019

Some of the key messages are: The global mean temperature for 2019 was 1.1±0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels, with this year likely to have been the second warmest in instrumental records; 2019 saw low sea-ice extent in both the Arctic and the Antarctic.[more]

Call for nominations: EMS Young Scientist Award

Deadline for nominations: 19 April 2020
The EMS Young Scientist Award is given annually to an individual in recognition of excellent performance during the early stage of their scientific career. The award is in form of a prize money and travel expenses to cover the attendance of the EMS Annual Meeting.[more]

EMS2020: Abstract submission deadline postponed until 19 May 2020

The deadline to submit abstracts to the EMS2020 is post-poned until 20 May 2020. The Council will take a decision on 14 May 2020 and inform the  community whether the conference will go ahead as planned, organising a combined on-site and on-line meeting, having an on-line meeting or cancel the EMS2020.[more]

Europhotometeo: World’s End by Nicolai Brügger

Winners of the EPM2020: “World’s End”, “Green Sky” by Aquistin Ferreiro and “December Morning” by Stefan Zuser. The favourite of the public voting is “Super Cell by the beach”, followed by “Galerna”.[more]

EMS Media Assistant: Aaron Dantas

Aaron Barbosa Dantas joined the EMS as Media Assistant. His main role is to develop digital outreach materials over Social Media and for the EMS website to keep the content interesting. Before joining the EMS, Aaron has been working as a Digital Marketing Specialist …[more]

Chair of EMS Media Team at AMS100

Modern society is becoming increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events. The meteorological services are making great efforts to develop better weather forecasts and issue alerts. In spite of rapid development of new means of communication …[more]