This workshop aims to bring together a broad and diverse range of climate scientists, societal-impacts researchers, and policymakers to establish what is currently known about correlated climate extremes, and to … Continue reading Workshop on Correlated Extremes at Columbia University
Might the severe risk posed by hurricanes become worse if they increasingly link with deadly heatwaves? As global temperatures rise, individual climate-driven hazards might become more intense or frequent. But, … Continue reading PhD opportunity “Deadly Climate Hazards Combined: Tropical Cyclones and Deadly Heat”
We are excited to invite submissions to the session "Understanding and modelling compound climate and weather events and their impacts (NH1.3/AS4.49)" at the EGU General Meeting in April 2019. This … Continue reading Call for abstracts: Compound event session at EGU2019 organised by DAMOCLES
On November 14, Dominik Paprotny will be defending his dissertation entitled: "Methods for Improving Pan-European Flood Risk Mapping" Abstract In the past decade, there has been growing interest in analysing … Continue reading Public Defence of Dominik Paprotny: Methods for Improving Pan-European Flood Risk Mapping
The joint working days are an initiative started within the Dutch research community working on compound events. The objective of this day is to create a space where researchers can … Continue reading 5th Dutch Compound Events Joint Working Day
Yesterday was the official start of the COST Action DAMOCLES (also see our post from the 3rd of May). The kick off meeting in Brussels hosted representatives from almost all 28 … Continue reading Official start of the COST Action on ‘Understanding and modeling compound climate and weather events (DAMOCLES)’
Dear colleagues, We have a vacancy for a 2-year postdoc position at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando. The successful candidate will be working in the Civil, Environmental, … Continue reading Postdoc opportunity to work on compound flooding
Atmospheric rivers (ARs), long filaments of high water vapour concentration, play an important role in the occurrence of compound events (CEs) in the form of coinciding heavy precipitation and high … Continue reading New article on compound events online in NHESS Discussions
The AGU 2018 Fall Meeting will mark another dynamic year of discovery in Earth and space science, serve as the advent of AGU’s Centennial year, and provide a special opportunity … Continue reading 2018 AGU Fall Meeting
We are happy to announce that we will be launching a new session at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, entitled “Compound and Cascading Events: an Emerging Challenge for Natural Hazard … Continue reading Call for abstract: AGU Fall Meeting session on Compound and Cascading Events