News Room : European Meteorological Society

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]

15/09/2018

Interview with HMD member Ksenija Cindrić Kalin

EMS LC: Is your job related to meteorology?

Yes, I am working in the Climatology Department at the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ), in Zagreb. My work is primarily concerned with climate studies, particularly regarding climate change and climate extremes analysis related to droughts and floods.[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]

04/09/2018

EMS2018: visualising scientific results ….

Tuesday morning started off with the keynote lecture of Prof. Sonia Seneviratne, ETH Zurich, on Projecting Changes in Impacts at 1.5 v. 2 degree C global warming: the role of land-surface processes.

The audio track[more]

03/09/2018

EMS2018 kicks off with Strategic Lectures: audio and slides

The EMS2018 did kick off with Strategic Lectures by Diana Ürge-Vorsatz on “Can we still halt climate change?” and Julia Slingo on “The changing landscape of climate risk”.

The audio track and slides are available[more]

Fritz Neuwirth: Recipient EMS Outstanding Contribution Award 2019

03/09/2018

Interview with EMS Council Member Fritz Neuwirth

Listen to what Fritz Neuwith, President of the Austrian Meteorological Society and a representative on the EMS Council for the last three years, says about the role of the European Meteorological Society.[more]

Gert-Jan Steeneveld (photo: Tanja Cegnar)

01/09/2018

Interview of the Month: Dutch Meteorological Society

Interview with the President of the Dutch Meteorological Society (NVBM) Gert-Jan Steeneveld

EMS LC: If you wanted to describe your society/organisation in one sentence what would you say?[more]

23/08/2018

EMS TV Weather Forecast Award for Dunja Mazzocco Drvar, Croatia

10 video clips of TV weather forecasts were submitted for theEMS TV Weather Forecast Award 2018, two of the entries were received from countries outside of Europe. The selection committee chose the forecast produced by Dunja Mazzocco Drvar (Croatia) to receive the award.[more]