Pieter Groenemeijer, Ari-Juhani Punkka, Jenni Teittinen (FMI)
Forecasting severe thunderstorms [HTML]

Oscar van der Velde
Guide to Using Convective Weather Maps [PDF], [link to the maps]

NOAA's Warning Decision Training Branch
Distance-learning courses on several aspects of severe convective weather

4th European Severe Storms Conference, Trieste, Italy, 10-14 September 2007:
Christoph Gatzen et al.:
A close look at a severe MCS during the "Kyrill" winter storm over Central Europe [PPT]

Pieter Groenemeijer et al.:
Verification of Dichotomous Lightning Forecasts at the European Storm Forecast Experiment (ESTOFEX) [PPT]

DWD Bas.-Vor. Workshop, Langen, Germany, 21 June 2007: Pieter Groenemeijer:
Vorhersage von Konvektiven Unwettern: relevante Größe und Parameter [PPT] (in German)

Stiftung Umwelt und Schadenvorhersage, Rastatt, Germany, March 2007: Pieter Groenemeijer, Helge Tuschy, Christoph Gatzen, Johannes Dahl, Oscar van der Velde:
European Storm Forecast Experiment [PDF] (in German)

DWD Tornado Workshop, Langen, Germany, February 2005:
Jan Hoffmann
The use of Doppler radar products for nowcasting tornadoes [PPT]

Johannes Dahl
Tornado workshop contribution [PPT]

Christoph Gatzen and Pieter Groenemeijer
Forecasting tornadoes using model- and sounding derived parameters [PPT]

FMI spring training session, Helsinki, May 2005:
Pieter Groenemeijer
Severe Convective Storms: theory and forecasting [PPT]

3rd European Severe Storms Conference, Léon, Spain, 9-12 November 2004:
Johannes Dahl:
The European Storm Forecast Experiment

Van der Velde, O. A., et al., 2007:
Analysis of the first gigantic jet recorded over continental North America, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D20104, doi:10.1029/2007JD008575 [PDF]

Van der Velde, O. A., et al., 2006:
Observations of the relationship between sprite morphology and in-cloud lightning processes, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D15203, doi:10.1029/2005JD006879

Dahl, J. M. L., 2006:
Supercells - Their Dynamics and Prediction M.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Groenemeijer, P. H., 2005:
Sounding-derived parameters associated with severe convective storms in the Netherlands M.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Gatzen, C. P., 2004:
A Derecho in Europe: Berlin, 10 July 2002. Wea Forecasting 19, 639-645. [PDF]

Groenemeijer, P. H., 2003:
Three events of strong deep moist convection in The Netherlands. (KNMI report) [PDF]

Haklander, A. J. and A. van Delden, 2003:
Thunderstorm predictors and their forecast skill for the Netherlands. Atmos. Res 67-68, 273-299.[PDF]

Haklander, A. J., 2002:
Thunderstorm predictors and their forecast skills for The Netherlands. (MSc thesis) [PDF]

Van der Velde, O. A., 2001:
Relations between three-dimensional lightning activity and hydrometeor types in the June 13th 1998 Oklahoma City tornadic supercell. (MSc thesis)

Van der Velde, O. A., 2000:
Lightning activity of thunderstorms in relation to environmental and radar characteristics. (MSc thesis, abstract)

Articles by Chuck Doswell

MetEd

Kelvin Droegemeier
Reading and Other Materials for METR 4433 Mesoscale Meteorology

Storm Prediction Center publications

Various articles by many authors [www.garnerchase.net]

Craven, J.P. et al., 2002: Baseline climatology of sounding derived parameters associated with deep, moist convection [PDF]

Brooks, H. and J.P. Craven, 2002: A database of proximity soundings for significant severe thunderstorms, 1957 - 1993 [PDF]

Monteverdi et al., 1998: Shear parameter thresholds for forecasting tornadic thunderstorms in Northern and Central California

Dotzek, N., Tornadoes in Germany [PDF]
TorDACH Germany, Tornadoes in Germany

Holzer, A., Tornado Climatology of Austria
TorDACH Austria, Tornadoes in Austria

Doswell, C.: What is a tornado?

Studies by Jon Davies

David Schultz