European Severe Storms Laboratory
The European Severe Storms Laboratory Association ( ESSL ) is a company founded in 2006 profit severe weather research organization that collects storm data at European level, tests and provides a freely accessible web interface scientists and laypersons, the operating Furthermore, basic research and regular European storms conferences organized. In severe weather database European Severe Weather Database ( ESWD ) are messages to tornadoes, large hail, heavy rain, gust front vortices ( gustnadoes ), funnel cloud ( funnel clouds ), dust devil, heavy snow, ice hazards, avalanches, schadensbringendem lightning and heavy wind gusts in the European countries and the Mediterranean collected.
A forerunner of the network was active only in German-speaking TorDACH. The ESSL is an international network with other meteorological organizations, such as the namesake NSSL ( National Severe Storms Laboratory) in the United States, with some national meteorological services in Europe (eg German Weather Service ), with the European weather satellite operator EUMETSAT or with partners as Skywarn.
The ESSL awards as part of the biennial conference held European storm ECSS the Heino - Tooming Award for outstanding scientific work in the field of severe weather research. The price is Prof. Dr. Heino Tooming named after the late 2004 Estonian meteorologists.
Seat of ESSL is the site of the DLR (German Aerospace Center and space) in Wessling near Munich. In June 2012, a training center in Wiener Neustadt will be opened in Lower Austria. The choice of location was next to the geographical location, which is favorable for research in Southern and Eastern Europe, by taking place at this location atypical weather situations, such as the tornado in 1916.
On May 29, 2010, Dr. Nikolai Dotzek (born 1966), founder, founding member and first director of ESSL, died suddenly and unexpectedly. Dotzek was counted among the world's most influential severe weather researchers and put through the network TorDACH he initiated the foundation for today's ESSL.
Currently, the following management functions are ordered: Pieter Groenemeijer (Director, Netherlands), Kathrin Riemann - Campe ( Deputy Director, Germany ) and Alois M. Holzer (Treasurer, Austria ).
Sources and Literature
- In Memoriam Dotzek:
- ESSL statute: German and English-language version
- European storm Conference ECSS 2009: Conference Preprints
- Dotzek, N., P. Groenemeijer, B. Feuerstein, and AM Holzer, 2009: Overview of ESSL 's severe convective storms research using the European Severe Weather Database ESWD. Atmos. Res 93, 575-586.
- Press release from the NSSL in the United States after the establishment of the ESSL:
- New ESSL Board from 2011: