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
The Annual Meetings of the EMS aim at fostering exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas in the meteorological, climatological, and related communities. Facilitating interactions, integration, and engagement of science, applications, and … Continue reading EMS 2019 Annual Meeting
The Workshop on Correlated Extremes will take place on Columbia University’s Morningside campus (Manhattan, NYC) on May 29-31, 2019, preceded by an evening panel on May 28. It will be … Continue reading Workshop on Correlated Extremes
Guest Blog by Wouter Berghuijs (orcid) Frequent readers of this blog may be aware that different natural hazards often happen at the same time; periods of drought may coincide with … Continue reading When rivers flood, surrounding rivers often flood at the same time.
A part of its Excellence 100 recruitment, Loughborough is recruiting for a Lectureship in Energy Adaptions and Climate Change Resilience. This is an open ended academic position. The application deadline … Continue reading Open ended academic position at Loughborough University
The announcement for a position for a Doctorate Researcher under the Project IMPECAF ref: PTDC / CTA-CLI / 28902/2017 was published and is available at http://www.fc.ul.pt/pt/concursos, n. 2725. IMPECAF's main … Continue reading Doctorate Researcher Opportunity
When we want to estimate climate risks, we need to model climate impacts. Our current climate tend to have biases even in the most basic variables. They are too hot … Continue reading Bias adjustment and multivariate impacts
These meetings, which have been held roughly every three years since 1979, are organized by independent statisticians, climatologists and atmospheric scientists. They facilitate communication between the climate and statistics communities … Continue reading 14th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology
While narratives or storylines have been used for decades in social sciences and beyond (e.g. RCPs, SSPs, economic risk assessment), the concept of analyzing and communicating high-impact weather extreme events … Continue reading Workshop on physical modeling supporting a “storyline approach”
Goals: Establish membership of each DAMOCLES participant to at least one of the 5 WGs Compile roadmap (“mission statement”) for each WG to reach WG deliverables and DAMOCLES objectives Assign … Continue reading 1st DAMOCLES Working Group meeting