Extreme weather congress
The Extreme Weather Congress (EWK) was set up with the aim of providing the public with first-hand information on the state of the art on the subject of extreme weather events in detail and in connection with climate change . He awarded the media prize for meteorology . The congress was organized by the Institute for Weather and Climate Communication. The last extreme weather congress took place in 2014.
Congresses: 2006–2014
The first three congresses and all congresses from 2011 took place in Hamburg, two more in the Klimahaus Bremerhaven . The extreme weather congresses in 2012 and 2013 met on the Studio Hamburg premises . The extreme weather congress addressed a wide audience with a variety of lectures from all disciplines of climate research. With over 800 participants, it was the largest congress on this subject in Europe.
| year | Location | Duration | Visitors |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 16-17, 2006 | Hamburg | 2 days | 400 |
| March 22-23, 2007 | Hamburg | 2 days | 700 |
| March 26-28, 2008 | Hamburg | 3 days | 750 |
| February 19-21, 2009 | Bremerhaven | 3 days | 750 |
| March 04-06, 2010 | Bremerhaven | 3 days | > 800 |
| April 12-15, 2011 | Hamburg | 4 days | 1,600 |
| March 20-23, 2012 | Hamburg | 4 days | |
| September 23-27, 2013 | Hamburg | 5 days | |
| October 06-10, 2014 | Hamburg | 5 days | > 5,000 |
Media award
The media prize for meteorology has been awarded at the Extreme Weather Congress since 2007. The best weather presentations will be assessed in different categories.
| category | winner | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Television media | rbb | The weather for the whole week |
| Radio media | Radio NRW | Winter & Severe January 20th 2007 |
| Print report | Hamburger Abendblatt | Weather report |
| category | winner | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Television media | Hessian radio | All weather! |
| Radio media | Radio SAW | Climate change: forecast for Saxony-Anhalt |
| Print report | Stuttgart news | Climate change in Germany |
| Web application | Bender & Gudd | Weather for Microsoft Virtual Earth |
| Television documentary | rbb | On the road with storm chasers - tornadoes in Germany by Heiderose Häsler |
The weather picture of the year was chosen at the Extreme Weather Congress 2012. Jim Reed took first place, André Bock and Dennis Oswald took second and third place.
In 2013, the media prize for meteorology for the picture of the year went to Dennis Oswald ( extreme weather and landscape photographer and storm chaser ).
Web links
- Facebook page about the Congress in 2014
- Article on the 1st Extreme Weather Congress in Mitteilungen DMG 01/2006 (PDF; 2.62 MB)
- Article on the 1st Extreme Weather Congress in MaxPlanckResearch 1/2006 (PDF; 3.43 MB)
- Extreme weather, report on the 1st Extreme Weather Congress 2006 from Deutschlandfunk
Individual evidence
- ↑ ExtremWetterKongress: Organizer . In: extremwetterkongress.de. Without a date. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ MeteoGroup: Press . In: meteogroup.com. Without a date. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ ExtremWetterKongress: Weather picture of the year . In: Facebook.com. November 22, 2011. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ ExtremWetterKongress: Extreme Weather Congress 2013 - the program . In: extremwetterkongress.de. Without a date. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ Dennis Oswald: Website ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 2, 2014.
