5th European Conference on Severe Storms

The scope of the conference covers all aspects of severe convective weather. All researchers, operational forecasters and risk or emergency managers interested in the topic are invited to submit contributions. In light of the global relevance of the conference themes, participants from all over the world are welcome to attend.

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2009

ECSS 2009 will deal with the following session topics. Depending on the scope of abstracts received, additional topics may be added 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 convective initiation, storm life cycles and phenomena
• Remote sensing of severe storms, e.g. by satellite, radar, and lightning detection
• Extratropical cyclones: embedded thunderstorms and large-scale wind fields
• Severe storm case studies and field campaigns, e.g. COPS, THORPEX, VORTEX2
• 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