Guest blog by Natacha Le Grix and Elisabeth Tschumi, Universität Bern, Switzerland What could possibly bring together experts of the copula theory, hydraulic engineers and climate scientists working on extremes like … Continue reading First DAMOCLES training school
DAMOCLES COST Action on Compound Weather Events aims to establish and coordinate a network of previously unconnected communities including climate scientists, hydrologists, impact modelers, risk modelers, statisticians and stakeholders. WG … Continue reading Dissemination of identification of DAMOCLES Stakeholder Network
DAMOCLES COST Action on Compound Weather Events aims to establish and coordinate a network of previously unconnected communities including climate scientists, hydrologists, impact modelers, risk modelers, statisticians and stakeholders. WG … Continue reading Dissemination of identification of DAMOCLES Stakeholder Network
There is a faculty (i.e. open ended academic) position at Loughborough going. Loughborough is consistently in the 10 best university in the UK by recent rankings, often up to 5th, … Continue reading Faculty position at Loughborough
Guest blog by Alexandre Ramos, Instituto Dom Luiz, Portugal An Atmospheric River (AR) is a long, narrow, and transient corridor of strong horizontal water vapour transport that is typically associated with … Continue reading Atmospheric Rivers from a Compound Event Perspective
This December's AGU meeting in San Francisco, USA has (tentatively) several sessions related to compound events: NH013 - Concurrent, Consecutive and Cascading Events: An Emerging Challenge for Risk Assessment and Management … Continue reading Compound Events at AGU Fall Meeting 2019
Lead Organizers: Colin Raymond, Radley Horton Steering Committee: Amir AghaKouchak, Olivia Martius, Thomas Wahl, Jakob Zscheischler, Suzana Camargo, Alex Ruane, Adam Sobel, Michael Oppenheimer, Noah Diffenbaugh, Sonia Seneviratne This workshop … Continue reading Summary: Workshop on Correlated Extreme Events
Guest blog by Edoardo Vignotto, University of Geneva, Switzerland Statistical modelling of extreme climatological events has recently gained a lot of interest. These events may occur in many different situations, … Continue reading Meteorological and agricultural hazards in high drought risk scenarios
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
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