Compound Climate Events and Extremes in the Midlatitudes: Dynamics, Simulation, and Statistical Characterization
Gabriele Messori, Emanuele Bevacqua, Rodrigo Caballero, Dim Coumou, Paolo De Luca, Davide Faranda, Kai Kornhuber, Olivia Martius, Flavio Pons, Colin Raymond, Kunhui Ye, Pascal Yiou, Jakob Zscheischler
Abstract
What: The workshop, conducted virtually due to travel restrictions related to COVID-19, gathered scientists from six countries and focused on the mechanistic understanding, statistical characterization, and modeling of societally relevant compound climate events and extremes in the midlatitudes. These ranged from co-occurring hot-humid or wet-windy extremes, to spatially compounding wet and dry extremes, to temporally compounding hot-wet events and more. The aim was to bring together selected experts studying a diverse range of compound climate events and extremes to present their ongoing work and outline challenges and future developments in this societally relevant field of research.