The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) is a scientific organisation that conducts research on severe convective storms, tornadoes, intense precipitation events, and avalanches across Europe and the Mediterranean. It operates the widely consulted European Severe Weather Database (ESWD).[citation needed]
The European Severe Storms Laboratory started as an informal network of European scientists with the goal to advance research on severe convective storms and extreme weather events on a European level. It was initiated in 2002 by Nikolai Dotzek and became a non-profit organization with charitable status in 2006.[1][2]
The ESSL focuses on research questions concerning convective storms and other extreme weather phenomena which can be treated more efficiently on a pan-European scale.[3] It can be seen as roughly the European counterpart to the US's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).[citation needed] Some members of ESSL participate in the European Storm Forecast Experiment (ESTOFEX) which issues daily forecasts of severe convective storms. It can be seen as the operational counterpart to the US Storm Prediction Center (SPC) akin to ESSL being the research counterpart to NSSL, although both European organizations currently lack the institutional support enjoyed by the US organisations which are government entities.[citation needed]
The statutory purposes of the ESSL are:
to advance research on severe convective storms and extreme weather events on a European level
to operate and extend the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD)
to support or organize the European Conferences on Severe Storms
European Severe Weather Database
The European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) collects and verifies reports on dust, sand- or steam devils, tornadoes, gustnadoes, large hail, heavy rain and snowfall, severe wind gusts, damaging lightning strikes and avalanches all over Europe and around the Mediterranean. The ESWD is the most important database for such events in Europe.[4] Everyone is welcome to report extreme weather observations. Each report undergoes a quality control and each event is flagged either as received (QC0), plausibility checked (QC0+), report confirmed by other observer (QC1) or as fully verified by trusted source (QC2).[5]
European Conference on Severe Storms
The European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS) is a conference series organized by the ESSL since 2002 and taking place biannually.[6] During the ECSS two prices are offered:
The Heino-Tooming-Award is named after the meteorologist Heino Tooming († 2004) and awards excellent scientific work on severe storms in European collaborations.
The Nikolai Dotzek Award is named after meteorologist Nikolai Dotzek and honors distinguished scientific individual performance or lifetime achievement.[7][8]
Automatic Severe Weather Prediction (AR-CHARMO)
On july 27, 2022, ESSL launched a site with experimental forecasts of lightning and hail for Europe based on post-processed weather model data.[9][10]
Organisation
The ESSL has two headquarters, one in Weßling close to Munich in Germany, and the other Wiener Neustadt in Austria. Both the German and the Austrian branch work together closely as formulated in a Memorandum of Understanding in 2012, the management boards are nearly identical.[11]
Institutional members of the general assembly are national weather services such as the German DWD and the ZAMG, as well as meteorological research institutes like Research Center for Environmental Changes of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan or the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Planetary Research DLR.[7] Other members of the general assembly are scientists interested in severe weather research from all over the world.[12]
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ESSL redirects here For other uses see ESSL disambiguation The European Severe Storms Laboratory ESSL is a scientific organisation that conducts research on severe convective storms tornadoes intense precipitation events and avalanches across Europe and the Mediterranean It operates the widely consulted European Severe Weather Database ESWD citation needed European Severe Storms LaboratoryESSL logoAbbreviationESSLPredecessorTorDACHFormation12 August 2006TypeNGOPurposeadvance research on extreme weather events on a European levelLocationc o DLR Munchener Str 20 82234 Wessling GermanyRegion servedEuropeOfficial languageEnglishDirectorPieter GroenemeijerTreasurer and Director of OperationsAlois M HolzerMain organGeneral AssemblyWebsiteESSL Contents 1 History and purpose of the ESSL 1 1 European Severe Weather Database 1 2 European Conference on Severe Storms 1 3 Automatic Severe Weather Prediction AR CHARMO 2 Organisation 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory and purpose of the ESSL EditThe European Severe Storms Laboratory started as an informal network of European scientists with the goal to advance research on severe convective storms and extreme weather events on a European level It was initiated in 2002 by Nikolai Dotzek and became a non profit organization with charitable status in 2006 1 2 The ESSL focuses on research questions concerning convective storms and other extreme weather phenomena which can be treated more efficiently on a pan European scale 3 It can be seen as roughly the European counterpart to the US s National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL citation needed Some members of ESSL participate in the European Storm Forecast Experiment ESTOFEX which issues daily forecasts of severe convective storms It can be seen as the operational counterpart to the US Storm Prediction Center SPC akin to ESSL being the research counterpart to NSSL although both European organizations currently lack the institutional support enjoyed by the US organisations which are government entities citation needed The statutory purposes of the ESSL are to advance research on severe convective storms and extreme weather events on a European level to operate and extend the European Severe Weather Database ESWD to support or organize the European Conferences on Severe StormsEuropean Severe Weather Database Edit The European Severe Weather Database ESWD collects and verifies reports on dust sand or steam devils tornadoes gustnadoes large hail heavy rain and snowfall severe wind gusts damaging lightning strikes and avalanches all over Europe and around the Mediterranean The ESWD is the most important database for such events in Europe 4 Everyone is welcome to report extreme weather observations Each report undergoes a quality control and each event is flagged either as received QC0 plausibility checked QC0 report confirmed by other observer QC1 or as fully verified by trusted source QC2 5 European Conference on Severe Storms Edit The European Conference on Severe Storms ECSS is a conference series organized by the ESSL since 2002 and taking place biannually 6 During the ECSS two prices are offered The Heino Tooming Award is named after the meteorologist Heino Tooming 2004 and awards excellent scientific work on severe storms in European collaborations The Nikolai Dotzek Award is named after meteorologist Nikolai Dotzek and honors distinguished scientific individual performance or lifetime achievement 7 8 Automatic Severe Weather Prediction AR CHARMO Edit On july 27 2022 ESSL launched a site with experimental forecasts of lightning and hail for Europe based on post processed weather model data 9 10 Organisation EditThe ESSL has two headquarters one in Wessling close to Munich in Germany and the other Wiener Neustadt in Austria Both the German and the Austrian branch work together closely as formulated in a Memorandum of Understanding in 2012 the management boards are nearly identical 11 Institutional members of the general assembly are national weather services such as the German DWD and the ZAMG as well as meteorological research institutes like Research Center for Environmental Changes of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan or the German Aerospace Center s Institute of Planetary Research DLR 7 Other members of the general assembly are scientists interested in severe weather research from all over the world 12 See also EditSkywarn Europe TORROReferences Edit Dotzek Nikolai Groenemeijer Pieter Feuerstein Bernold Holzer Alois M 2009 Overview of ESSL s severe convective storms research using the European Severe Weather Database ESWD PDF Atmospheric Research 93 1 3 575 86 Bibcode 2009AtmRe 93 575D doi 10 1016 j atmosres 2008 10 020 INIST 21805181 NSSL Provides Model for New European Severe Storms Lab NOAA Archived from the original on May 7 2009 Retrieved 2009 10 27 European Severe Storms Laboratory PDF European Severe Storms Laboratory Retrieved 2009 10 27 dead link Data Sources for Significant Weather Events German 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