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Karsten Schwanke, Germany: EMS TV Weather Forecast Award 2019 (photo credit: ARD/Ralf Wilschewski)

EMS TV Weather Forecast Award for Karsten Schwanke, Germany

The forecast by Karsten Schwanke, broadcast on the ARD Weather Show on 16 February 2019, was selected for the EMS TV Weather Forecast Award 2019. The presentation is an excellent example of how to link a weather forecast with explaining meteorological phenomena.[more]

photo credits: WMO

Open Consultative Platform organised by WMO

A High-Level Round Table on “Partnership and Innovation for the Next Generation of Weather and Climate Intelligence” marked the launch of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP) with the main objective to foster cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary and long-term approaches in identifying and addressing collaboratively the grand challenges facing the global weather enterprise ….[more]

Chrystalla Papachristodoulou, President of CY.Met.A. (photo private)

Interview of the month: Cyprus

The President of CYMETA, Chrystalla Papachristodoulou, explains the activities of the society, talks about the expectations how EMS can support member activities and the challenge to combat climate change.[more]

EMS 2019 Session schedule

EMS2019 Session programme online

The Meeting programme of the EMS Annual Meeting in September in Copenhagen is now online. Deadlines for early registration is 23 July 2019. Also information on side events and excursions is also becoming available: Early Career Scientist Café, Good to know to prepare for the EMS2019, …[more]

Depiction of a woolly mammoth from the Pliocene era

Looking into the past to understand the future

In collaboration with the Grantham Institute, the RMets hosted a joint meeting on 3 April 2019 on a geologic epoch 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago – the Pliocene. This era was the last time carbon dioxide concentrations on Earth were as high as today.[more]

Nina Kukukurainen, Director of Communications at Finnish Meteorological Institute (photo credit: ©Veikko Somerpuro)

Interview of the month: Nina Kukkurainen, FMI

Nina Kukkurainen, the Director of Communications at Finnish Meteorological Institute, talks about the importance of internal and external communication and the beauty of working in a field that truly has an impact on everyone.[more]

Young Scientist Awardee 2019 Sebastian Schemm (photo: private)

Young Scientist Awardee: Sebastian Schemm

Sebastian Schemm receives this award for his rigorous work that has fundamentally increased our understanding of the life cycle of extratropical cyclones. In his study, he disentangles an historical «chicken or egg» question: When, during their lifetime, are extratropical cyclones attended by fronts?[more]