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10th European Conference on Severe Storms Kraków, Poland 4 – 8 November 2019 Programme On site registration desk opening hours: Sun 15:00 – 20:00 Mon 08:00 – 18:00 Tue – Fri starting at 08:30 All printed programme information is as of 24 October 2019. Please check local announcements or see ECSS message board or tweets for latest updates. ECSS Twitter updates by @essl_ecss. Please use the hashtag #ecss2019 for your tweets. ESSL General Assembly: Sun, 3 Nov 2019, 19:30, room Attic 10:15–10:30: ECSS2019-163 Sunday, 3 November 2019 Investigating an extraordinary mesocyclonic tornado in the coastline of Mediterranean, Turkey Location: Conference Lobby Ozturk, Kurtulus; Tastan, Melik Ahmet 15:00–20:00 10:30–10:45: ECSS2019-106 Wind gusts associated with mesovortices in the inner core of Typhoon GONI (2015) On site registration. Mashiko, Wataru END OF ORAL PROGRAMME SESSION 4 10:45 Coffee break, sponsored by EUMETSAT Location: Room Attic 19:30–21:00 11:30–12:45 ESSL General Assembly Session 8 For members of the European Severe Storms Radar studies of storms and their Laboratory. environment 11:30–11:45: ECSS2019-50 Challenges of Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in Stormy Conditions Besic, Nikola; Yu, Nan; Le Bastard, Tony; Augros, Monday, 4 November 2019 Clotilde; Gaussiat, Nicolas 11:45–12:00: ECSS2019-100 Location: Lecture room Operational benefits to correcting S-Band differential reflectivity for hail detection 09:00–09:30 Kingfield, Darrel; French, Michael A 12:00–12:15: ECSS2019-146 A Polarimetric Radar Climatology of Supercell Opening session Thunderstorms in the United States French, Michael; Kingfield, Darrel; Tuftedal, Kristofer; Segall, Jacob; Snyder, Jeffrey 09:30–10:45 12:15–12:30: ECSS2019-92 Towards a better understanding of the role of topography Session 4 in the motion of severe storms in Catalonia: First results Field Observations and Case with C-band dual-Doppler analysis del Moral, Anna; Weckwerth, Tammy M.; Rigo, Tomeu; Studies Bell, Michael M.; Llasat, Maria Carme 09:30–09:45: ECSS2019-183 12:30–12:45: ECSS2019-88 Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells Environments conducive for severe convective winds in (TORUS): Summary of the 2019 field campaign Europe Houston, Adam; Argrow, Brian; Coniglio, Michael; Frew, Pacey, George Eric; Rasmussen, Erik; Weiss, Christopher; Ziegler, Conrad END OF ORAL PROGRAMME SESSION 8 09:45–10:00: ECSS2019-47 Implementation and use of the Model for the Prediction 13:00 Lunch break Across Scales (MPAS) for extended, convection-permitting forecast guidance during RELAMPAGO Trapp, Robert 10:00–10:15: ECSS2019-84 Overview of convection initiation events during the RELAMPAGO-CACTI project Marquis, James; Wilson, Jim; Varble, Adam 4 Conference programme 14:30–17:30 17:30–18:15 Session 9 Session 3 Storm microphysics, Impact of storms on society, electrification, lightning and hail impact mitigation and early warning systems 14:30–15:00: ECSS2019-156 Influences on Hail Size as Inferred from Hailstone Growth 17:30–17:45: ECSS2019-63 Trajectory Model Calculations (solicited) Impact-Based Severe Early Weather Warning System in Kumjian, Matthew; Lombardo, Kelly South Africa: Getting the message to the ground level Webster, Elizabeth 15:00–15:15: ECSS2019-135 Detection and monitoring of mid latitude convective 17:45–18:00: ECSS2019-30 rainfall using H-SAF blended SEVIRI and LEO MW Learning lessons from deaths and injuries due to lightning convection precipitation product in Western Europe Lapeta, Bozena; Melfi, Davide; Iwański, Rafał; Struzik, Schmitt, Stéphane; Kreitz, Michaël Piotr 18:00–18:15: ECSS2019-155 15:15–15:30: ECSS2019-89 General public’s preparedness and precautionary The role of melting and shedding in supercells and squall measures ahead of a severe thunderstorm outbreak in lines Southern Finland on 12 August 2017 Lebo, Zachary; Kacan, Kevin Punkka, Ari-Juhani; Laurikainen, Heikki; Kekki, Tuula; Ruuhela, Reija; Pilli-Sihvola, Karoliina; Harjanne, Atte 15:30–15:45: ECSS2019-141 The particle-based ice microphysics McSnow in ICON END OF ORAL PROGRAMME SESSION 3 Siewert, Christoph; Seifert, Axel 15:45–16:00: ECSS2019-110 Application of machine learning to large hail prediction - 18:30–20:30 the importance of radar reflectivity, lightning occurrence and convective parameters derived from ERA5 B Icebreaker Czernecki, Bartosz; Taszarek, Mateusz; Marosz, Michał; Kolendowicz, Leszek; Półrolniczak, Marek; Wyszogrodzki, Informal welcome cocktail and hors d’oeuvres. Andrzej; Szturc, Jan 15:45 Coffee break, sponsored by EUMETSAT Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:45–17:00: ECSS2019-160 Are lightning initiation locations and inferred charge Location: Lecture room regions influenced by local updraft variations? Chmielewski, Vanna; MacGorman, Donald; Biggerstaff, 09:00–13:00 Michael; Betten, Daniel; DiGangi, Elizabeth 17:00–17:15: ECSS2019-211 Session 1 High speed video campaigns and meteorological Convective storm and tornado conditions related to Gigantic Jets in Colombia van der Velde, Oscar; Montanyà, Joan; López, Jesús; dynamics Fabró, Ferran; Cummer, Steven 09:00–09:30: ECSS2019-219 17:15–17:30: ECSS2019-4 Insights into Tornadogenesis from integrals of the vorticity Mesoscale lightning discharges seen from space equation and from angular-momentum advection Goodman, Steven; Virts, Katrina (solicited) Davies-Jones, Robert END OF ORAL PROGRAMME SESSION 9 09:30–09:45: ECSS2019-42 The Impact of Coastal Topography on Mesoscale Convective System Dynamics Lombardo, Kelly; Wu, Fan 09:45–10:00: ECSS2019-175 The Effects of Idealized Topography Shape and Location on the Generation of Intense Near-Surface Vertical Vorticity in Supercells Katona, Branden; Markowski, Paul 10th European Conference on Severe Storms Conference programme 5 10:00–10:15: ECSS2019-168 Location: Room Attic Outflow Surges in Simulated Supercell-Like Storms and their Influence on Tornado Development 14:30–16:00 Fischer, Jannick; Dahl, Johannes 10:15–10:30: ECSS2019-178 C Ensemble Experiments on a Maritime Meso-β-scale ECSS press briefing Vortex that Spawned Tornado-like Vortices causing shipwrecks Tochimoto, Eigo; Yokota, Sho; Niino, Hiroshi; Yanase, Wataru Location: Lecture room 10:30–10:45: ECSS2019-94 Dynamics of nocturnal convective systems 16:45–18:15 Parker, Matthew Session 11 10:45 Conference Photo & Coffee break Collection of storm data, historical events and damage assessments 11:30–11:45: ECSS2019-203 Tornadogenesis within a Supercell Storm near a Meiyu 16:45–17:00: ECSS2019-137 Frontal System in Eastern China: Dynamical Analyses Climatology of mesoscale convective systems in Russia based on a Tornado-Resolving Real-Data Simulation obtained with convolutional neural networks: first results Xue, Ming; Wang, Shiqi; Min, Jinzhong Chernokulsky, Alexander; Krinitsky, Michael; Sprygin, Alexander; Eroshkina, Nadezhda; Kurgansky, Michael; 11:45–12:00: ECSS2019-159 Shikhov, Andrey Observations of the Streamwise Vorticity Current from Project TORUS 17:00–17:15: ECSS2019-200 Weiss, Christopher; Schueth, Alex; Houston, Adam Theories on tornado and waterspout formation in ancient Greece and Rome 12:00–12:15: ECSS2019-28 Antonescu, Bogdan; Schultz, David M.; Ricketts, Hugo Mechanisms leading to the genesis of a tornado-scale M. 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M.; Ene, Dragoș vortex in an Argentinian supercell observed during the RELAMPAGO field campaign 17:15–17:30: ECSS2019-158 Wurman, Josh; Kosiba, Karen; Trapp, Jeff; Kumjian, The catastrophic case of heavy rainfall and flash flooding Matt of 14-15 October 2018 in south-western France: a multi-scale observational and modelling analysis 12:15–12:30: ECSS2019-27 Caumont, Olivier; Bouttier, François; Lebeaupin-Brossier, Low-Level Winds in Tornadoes Cindy; Lovat, Alexane; Mandement, Marc; Nuissier, Kosiba, Karen; Wurman, Josh Olivier; Laurantin, Olivier; Eeckman, Judith 12:30–12:45: ECSS2019-182 17:30–17:45: ECSS2019-179 Spring 2019 above-ground thermodynamic observations Crowdsourced severe weather reports in a high-impact in convective storms from balloon-borne probes acting as situation: a showcase and its implications to maximize pseudo-Lagrangian drifters their value and usability Bartos, Elissa; Markowski, Paul; Richardson, Yvette Pistotnik, Georg 12:45–13:00: ECSS2019-154 17:45–18:00: ECSS2019-185 Tornado Outbreaks from Quasi-Linear Convective Assessment of Tornado-Induced Building Damage Using Systems in the United Kingdom: Synoptic-Scale a Hybrid Meteorological Model/Engineering LES Method: Environments and Along-Line Variability In Case of Tsukuba Tornado in 2012 Buckingham, Ty; Schultz, David Kawaguchi, Masaharu; Tamura, Tetsuro; Mashiko, Wataru; Kawai, Hidenori END OF ORAL PROGRAMME SESSION 1 18:00–18:15: ECSS2019-198 EWOB: A standard for international exchange of weather 13:00 Lunch break and weatherimpact observations from crowd-sourcing Holzer, Alois M.; Groenemeijer, Pieter; Krennert, Thomas; Kaltenberger, Rainer; Kühne, Thilo; Schreiner, Thomas; Strommer, Gabriel END OF ORAL PROGRAMME SESSION 11 10th European Conference on Severe Storms 6 Conference programme P9: ECSS2019-12 Tuesday’s posters The regional risk perception of extreme weather events in Germany Location: Poster area Mohr, Susanna; Döring, Martin; Feser, Frauke; Kunz, Michael; Kunz-Plapp, Tina; Ratter, Beate; Schwarze, Attendance time: 14:30–16:00 Reimund Session 1 P10: ECSS2019-123 Improving the prediction of flash floods - New and Convective storm and tornado user-oriented approaches under development at DWD dynamics Keller, Julia; Blahak, Ulrich; Hagedorn, Renate; Akansu, Elisa; Rempel, Martin P1: ECSS2019-38
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  • Extreme Wind

    Extreme Wind

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