PREVENT at European Meteorological Society (EMS) 2025

EMS Annual Meeting, Ljubljana 7-12 September 2025

EMS2025 (https://ems2025.eu/) hosted this year 704 participants from 49 countries gathered onsite and online. The event provided a vibrant platform for exchanging ideas across the meteorological and climate communities, fostering collaboration among public, private, academic, and NGO stakeholders. This year’s programme placed special emphasis on the growing role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, exploring both their transformative potential and the challenges they bring to the weather and climate enterprise.

PREVENT participations are the following:

Monday 8 September 2025 – Session OSA1.1 Forecasting, Nowcasting and Warning Systems
11:00-11:15 EMS2025-189 Onsite presentation

Improving Seasonal Forecasts: A Sensitivity Analysis of the WRF Model Configurations
Kondylia Velikou, Errikos Michail Manios, Alexandros Papadopoulos Zachos, Konstantia Tolika and Christina Anagnostopoulou

Tuesday 9 September 2025 – UP3.3 Synoptic Climatology
14:30-14:45 EMS2025-26 Onsite presentation

Improving Seasonal Forecasts: Evaluating Synoptic Pattern Predictability Using Weather Type Classification
Alexandros Papadopoulos Zachos, Kondylia Velikou, Errikos Michail Manios, Konstantia Tolika and Christina Anagnostopoulou

Tuesday 9 September 2025 – UP3.3 Synoptic Climatology
16:00-17:15 EMS2025-191 Onsite presentation

Linking Synoptic Circulation Regimes to Atmospheric Blocking: A Weather Type-Based Approach
Errikos Michail Manios, Alexandros Papadopoulos Zachos, Kondylia Velikou, Konstantia Tolika and Christina Anagnostopoulou

Friday 12 September 2025 – OSA2.4 Human Biometeorology
11:15-11:30 EMS2025-423 Onsite presentation

Assessing Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Predict Temperature-Related Mortality in Cyprus
Fragkeskos Kekkou, Theo Economou, Kondylia Velikou, Alexandros Papadopoulos Zachos, George Zittis and Christina Anagnostopoulou