Climate extremes
Extreme Weather is changing
we study how and how-fast to identify risks for society
We are a team of climate scientists based at three leading European research institutes: IVM, KNMI & PIK. Our team comprises 7 nationalities and we believe climate science should be a cross border activity
Mission
We do extreme weather research to:
- Understand the processes, dynamics and teleconnections behind extreme weather including heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall
- Assess the role of climate change on current and future extremes
- Quantify the impacts and risks for society, in particular for agriculture and food security
- Improve seasonal to sub-seasonal (S2S) forecasting of heatwaves and droughts to build effective early warning programs
Team
Our team unites expertise on novel data-driven methods with state-of-the-art climate models. Our prime tools are:
- Dynamical system analyses to trace atmospheric pathways through phase space
- Causal discovery algorithms to understand cause-effect relationships from climatic observations
- Artificial Intelligence methods to construct S2S forecasts and quantify sensitivity of crops to extreme weather
- Targeted modeling experiments using the high-resolution climate model EC-Earth
We have active on-going collaborations with research institutes and stakeholder worldwide. For details, see our project pages.
