Climate Extremes

The Climate extremes group aims to identify and diagnose the most crucial climate and weather extreme events, and to understand the physical mechanisms underlying local and global atmospheric circulation patterns that lead to extreme climate and weather events. Global teleconnection patterns and land–ocean–atmosphere interactions are analyzed to understand which mechanisms mainly contribute to the rise in extremes and to better understand their potential impacts on human activities and the environment. Special attention is given to those mechanisms that lead to amplifying, cascading or compound extreme events, which can have severe consequences for the climate system. To reach this goal, both observational data and simulation data obtained from state-of-the-art global climate models are employed.

Cross-RD Climate and Weather extremes Seminar

In collaboration with RD4, we organize a quasi-monthly inter-departmental seminar, which hosts both internal and external speakers on the topic of extreme weather, impact of extremes, atmospheric dynamics and the meteorological patterns which cause extreme weather events. More information and the seminar's schedule can be found here.