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
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