Meetings and conferences
Helsinki
Finland
7th European conference on severe storms
Organizer(s)
Finnish Meteorological Institute
European Severe Storms Laboratory
Format
In person
Venue
Scandic Marina Congress Center
Date
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Scope
The scope of the conference covers all aspects of severe convective storms. Researchers, operational forecasters, and risk and emergency managers are invited to submit contributions. In light of the global relevance of the conference themes, participants from all over the world are encouraged to attend. These are the conference topics (and tentative session titles):
- Impact of storms on society, impact mitigation
- Convective storm and tornado dynamics
- Numerical modelling of storms; storm-scale data assimilation
- Interaction between convective storms and extratropical, Mediterranean, and tropical cyclones
- Floods and flash floods
- Forecasting and nowcasting of severe weather
- Remote-sensing of storms (e.g. satellite, radar, lightning detection)
- Storm electrification; lightning; microphysics; hail
- Storm climate, risk assessments, and climate change
- Collection of storm data; damage assessment