In early May a dedicated session on compound event research will be held in course of the 8th Open Science Conference organised by the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project. At this 6-day conference scientists from various disciplines related to Earth sciences will meet in Calgary, Canada and discuss the challenges of climate change … Continue reading Session on compound events at the 8th GEWEX open science conference: ‘Extremes and water on the edge’
Month: April 2018
For those who missed the second EGU session on compound events or want a recap, we tried to provide a short summary of the oral presentations of the NH1.7 session. During this session we also officially launched this new community website. 🙂 Main take-aways From this session we learned that compound events are relevant to … Continue reading EGU18 compound events session (NH1.7) – a summary
As you might have read in the About section, the goal of the website is to gather relevant information about compound events and to serve as a platform connecting researchers and practitioners. Compound events have been recently defined as “multiple drivers that combine to affect hazards contributing to societal or environmental risk”. This definition succeeds … Continue reading Dear reader of this blog
On Tuesday 10th April 2018 we will host the session “Addressing the challenge of compound events, multi-risk modelling and cross-risk assessment methods: Extremes, inter-dependencies, non-stationarities, impacts and vulnerability” at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna. There will be 6 oral presentations between 15:30-17:00 in room L6. There will also be 18 posters in Hall X1 … Continue reading Session on compound events at EGU General Assembly 2018 – Tuesday 10th April 2018