Date: Sunday, 6 September 2026, 10:30 – 17:30 CEST
Format: onsite
Addressed to: 20-30 participants
Although the specific target is Early Career Scientists the workshop is open to all.

Registration: Registration for the workshop is required! The fee is 100€.
Please be aware that the booking of this workshop is only available during the registration process for the conference until 3 August! After 3 August, and independent of the conference registration, no bookings will be possible.

Workshop description:
The key objective of this workshop is to grow researchers’ software skills necessary to apply good practices that enable open and reproducible research. The workshop focuses on building modular, reusable, maintainable, sustainable, reproducible, testable, and robust code. This will allow you to more easily organize, maintain and share your data. The participants should be familiar with programming and regularly write code for their research, but no extensive expertise or knowledge of specific tools are required. This workshop is inspired by and based on Carpentry and CodeRefinery training materials.

Who:
All career stages are welcome, but this workshop is particularly suited for early career scientists. It is assumed that participants already write code for their research, but no expertise is required. Some experience in navigating file trees and editing files in a terminal session, as well as basic knowledge of Python programming is recommended.

Where: This training will take place in-person at the conference venue
When: September 6th 2026 10:30 – 17:30 CEST.
Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. Please follow the set-up instruction of both links/lessons:
1) https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/instructor/index.html#setup
2) https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/good-practices-lesson/instructor/index.html#software-setup

Accessibility: We are dedicated to provide a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the conference organization in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email or training@esciencecenter.nl for more information.

Syllabus:
- Introduction to version control with Git
- Tracking changes: git add & git commit
- Exploring history, checking out older versions
- Ignoring things with .gitignore files
- Github remotes

- Collaboration with Git and Github
- Creating pull requests
- Review process
- Good practices for collaboration
- Contributing to repositories with forks

- Code Documentation
- In-code documentation
- Readme files
- Writing documentation with sphinx and ReadTheDocs or Github pages

- Modular Code Development
- How can you create blocks of code that can be reused?

- Testing
- Introduction to testing: motivation, unit testing, integration testing
- Writing tests with pytest

DATE: Thursday, 10 September 2026
FORMAT: Hybrid

PURPOSE: This workshop aims to strengthen the human biometeorology community by bringing together experts, practitioners, and stakeholders to exchange knowledge and co‑create future directions. Through presentations, interactive discussions and shared experiences, participants will:

*Build and enhance professional networks that support long‑term collaboration.
*Showcase examples of effective and innovative biometeorological services, highlighting real‑world applications, communication tools, and operational solutions.
*Identify current gaps in scientific understanding, methodological approaches, and user-oriented practices related to the impact of the atmosphere on human health.
*Develop a shared set of recommendations to guide future research priorities, service improvements, capacity development, and cooperation.

The workshop will serve as a platform for aligning perspectives, inspiring new initiatives, and fostering a vibrant community committed to advancing human biometeorology for societal benefit.

ORGANIZER: Solco W. Tromp Foundation with partners: European Climate and Health Observatory at the European Environment Agency, International Society of Biometeorology, Slovenian Meteorological Society, EMS Media & Communication Committee, Slovenian Environment Agency

REGISTRATION: The number of participants is limited; therefore, registration via email: trompfoundation@gmail.com is mandatory for both virtual and in person participants.

Date: Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 11:00 – 13:00 CEST
Format: onsite
Addressed to: 45 participants
This workshop is intended especially for Early Career Scientists but is open to anyone interested.

Registration: Registration for the workshop is required! Participation is free for all registered EMS2026 attendees.
Please be aware that the booking of this workshop is only available during the registration process for the conference until 3 August! After 3 August, and independent of the conference registration, no bookings will be possible.

Description:
Publishing research in scientific journals is one way that researchers build reputation in their community and allow the wide dissemination of their work.  This workshop will go through the structure of the article, introduce best practice tips when writing a paper, highlight the editorial process, and detail the main ethical issues in scientific publishing.
The aim of this interactive workshop, led by the Editors of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society, is to provide tips to prospective authors to improve the quality of their manuscripts and increase their chances of their papers being accepted for publication in reputable, international journals.

Event Details:
• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Organizers:
Dr. Johannes Schmetz, Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society
Dr. Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society
Sandra Broerse, Publisher Climate & Sustainability journals, Elsevier

Date: Sunday, 6 September 2026, 14:30 – 17:30 CEST
Format: onsite
Where: This training will take place in-person at the conference venue
Addressed to: 10-15 participants

Registration: Registration for the workshop is required! The fee is 45€.
Please be aware that the booking of this workshop is only available during the registration process for the conference until 3 August! After 3 August, and independent of the conference registration, no bookings will be possible.

Workshop description:
On the Sunday afternoon before EMS starts we organize a moisture tracking workshop to get acquainted with the concept and tools to determine the sources of precipitation (i.e. where the moisture that rained out originally evaporated). Or reverse, determine where evaporation will eventually lead to precipitation. Moisture tracking is a popular tool that can be applied in the field of hydro- and synoptic meteorology to quantify and understand the processes driving (extreme) precipitation, but is also relevant to understand land-atmosphere feedbacks and the impact of land-use changes on the water cycle. In this workshop you will get acquainted with the WAM2layers moisture tracking model (Kalverla et al., 2025).

The workshop will start with a short introduction on the concept, explaining the methods, and the involved uncertainties. Then, it is time for hands-on practice by simulating some moisture sources yourself choosing from two options: 1) determining the sources of the extreme precipitation case over western Europe in July 2021 that we prepare or 2) select an extreme precipitation case or evaporation region of your interest and perform a case study of interest during the workshop. For the latter, make sure you download the ERA5 data for your case before the workshop (we will provide you with instructions on how to download the data after you signed up for the workshop, this will take about 2 hours of your time).

After the workshop you will be able to run the WAM2layers moisture tracking model by yourself, and determine moisture sources for your own interest and apply it in your own research niche. To accommodate the room for the workshop (in the conference centre) we ask for a fee of 45 euro to attend the workshop.

References

Kalverla, P., Benedict, I., Weijenborg, C., and van der Ent, R. J.: Atmospheric moisture tracking with WAM2layers v3, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 4335–4352, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4335-2025, 2025.

WAM2layers Moisture tracking code and documentation on Github: https://github.com/WAM2layers