Convection Working Group Splinter Meeting 20 November 2025

Posted on 9 October 2025 by Vesa Nietosvaara

Convection Working Group splinter meeting will be held during European Conference on Severe Storms 2025 in Utrecht, Netherlands, on 20 November 15:15-16:45.

The draft agenda:

Welcome (Co-chairs)
Outstanding Actions
Contributions from members:
1. Anežka Doležalová: Model for detection overshooting tops and its usage
2. Sven-Erik Enno: Climatological features of lightning from the first year of MTG-LI observations
3. Johan Strandgren: Spatial sharpening of MTG-I data using AI/ML methods
Update on Best Practices Document (Co-chairs)
CWG Meeting 2026
Any Other Business
Closing

CWG members at ECSS 2025 are welcome to join this meeting.

Convection Working Group Splinter meeting at ECSS 2023

Posted on 11 May 2023 by Vesa Nietosvaara

Convection Working Group splinter meeting was held during European Conference on Severe Storms 2023, in Bucharest, Romania, on 11 May 14:30-16:00. The minutes of the meeting are available, see the link below.

Minutes of the Meeting (PDF)

New ESSL–EUMETSAT partnership on using next-generation satellite data in severe convective storm forecasting

Posted on 5 July 2021 by Vesa Nietosvaara

EUMETSAT has contracted the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) for a period of three years. The ESSL will train forecasters in Member States’ National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) on the use of products from EUMETSAT next-generation MTG and EPS-SG missions for severe convective storm analysis.

The aim is to train in total about 10–15% of the operational meteorological workforce in European weather services, or about 200–300 forecasters.

While EUMETSAT has been a member of ESSL since 2008, this contract forms the first formal relationship and is intended to pave the way for longer-term collaborations in support of the European meteorological community.

Convection Working Group Online sessions April 2020

Posted on 10 March 2020 by Vesa Nietosvaara

Convection Working Group will host two online sessions on 21 April 2020.

Tentative Schedule for Live Presentations

Session 1 : Tuesday 21 April 08:00-09:00 UTC

New products for MTG and NWC SAF. Xavier Calbet AEMET, Spain
NWCSAF Convection Products. J.-M. Moisselin, F. Autones, M. Claudon,Météo-France

Session 2: Tuesday 21 April 14:00-15:00 UTC

Use of 1-min resolution satellite imagery coupled to ground-based observations for cloud process determination:John Mecikalski,Atmospheric Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Hail Storm Risk Assessment Using Space-Borne Remote Sensing Observations and Reanalysis Data. Kris Bedka, NASA Langley Research Center, USA

Welcome

Posted on 16 April 2012 by Patrik Johnsson

Since the launch of the first Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite in 2002, many of applications in the area of severe convective storm detection and nowcasting have been developed by various users. The focus of this working group is to establish a comprehensive inventory of the available applications in this field, with the aim to get deeper insight into the differences and commonalities of the available techniques and products, and their specific areas of application.

The Convection Working Group is an initiative of EUMETSAT and its member states, and the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL).