Guest blog by Benjamin Poschlod Southern Norway is regularly exposed to floods triggered by heavy precipitation and snow-melt. A combination of high temperature leading to snow-melt and heavy rainfall is … Continue reading The compound event of heavy rainfall combined with snow-melt in southern Norway
Month: April 2019
Guest blog by Cenk Sezen Rain-on-snow events Rain-on-snow (ROS) floods, that is, the combined occurrence of snowmelt and rainfall events can cause huge economic impacts and endanger human lives due … Continue reading Investigating climate change impact on Rain-On-Snow events
Many extreme impacts on society are caused by compound events, which were recently defined as a combination of multiple drivers and/or hazards contributing to societal or environmental risk. Compound events … Continue reading Towards a categorisation of statistical methods to study compound events
Chairperson: Bart van den Hurk Conveners: Nina Nadine Ridder | Co-conveners: Bart van den Hurk, Philip Ward, Seth Westra, Jakob Zscheischler, Samuel Jonson Sutanto, Claudia Vitolo, Henny A.J. Van Lanen … Continue reading Session report: Understanding and modelling compound climate and weather events and their impacts
Guest blog by Davide Faranda, M. Carmen Alvarez Castro Mediterranean cyclones or "medicanes" Windstorms, extreme precipitations and instant floods seems to strike the Mediterranean area with increasing frequency. These events … Continue reading Medicanes: tropical-like-cyclones in the Mediterranean Sea and their uncertain fate with climate change