6th European conference on severe storms
The conference website and calls for papers will be designed from autumn 2010 on. Please contact: info (at) ecss.essl.org for more details or check PreventionWeb which will be updated regularly.
Scientific topics
The scope of the conference covers all aspects of severe convective weather. All researchers, operational forecasters and risk or emergency managers interested in the following topics are invited to submit contributions.
The ECSS 2011 will deal with the following tentative session topics. Depending on the scope of abstracts received, additional topics may be included later on:
- Theory of convection, atmospheric instability, and synoptic or orographic forcing
- Dynamics, microphysics and electrification of severe storms
- Severe weather climatology and hazard assessment
- Climate change impacts on severe storms, development of adaptation concepts
- Forecasting, nowcasting and warning of severe storms
- Numerical studies, e.g. of convection initiation, storm life cycles and phenomena
- Remote sensing of severe storms, e.g. by satellite, radar, and lightning detection
- Preconvective environment and convection initiation
- (Extra-) tropical cyclones: embedded thunderstorms and large-scale wind fields
- Severe weather reporting and databases, e.g. applied to forecast evaluation
- Socio-economic aspects, e.g. damage analysis, wind speed vs. damage relation
- Socio-economic aspects, e.g. emergency response and risk management, security of critical infrastructures
- Evening session: videos and pictures of severe convective weather