Climate Extremes and Their Implications for Impact and Risk Assessment

Dr. Jana Sillmann is Research Director at the Center for International Climate Research (CICERO) in Oslo, Norway and leads the Climate Impacts group. She holds a doctoral degree in Earth system sciences and is an internationally well-recognized expert in the field of climate extremes. Dr. Sillmann is co-leading activities for the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Grand Challenges on Weather and Climate Extremes, she is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) program and is a Lead author of Chapter 12 (Climate change information for regional impact and for risk assessment) in the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6 WGI). She is further co-chairing the Development Team for the Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk-KAN). Dr Sebastian Sippel is a climate-ecosystem researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research and ETH Zurich. His main research interests include the detection and attribution of climate change, and understanding extreme events and variability in the water and carbon cycle using statistical and machine learning techniques. In 2017, Sebastian successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Climate extremes and their impact on ecosystem-atmosphere interactions”, carried out jointly at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and ETH Zurich. The thesis systematically explores the link between climate extremes and ecosystem impacts from both statistical-empirical and process-oriented modeling perspectives and was awarded with the Bernd Rendel Prize in Geoscience by the German Research Foundation. Simone Russo has been a researcher for more than 15 years in the field of applied physics and statistic of extremes. He has a Ph.D in Applied Physics from Galileo Galilei school of the Pisa University (Italy). He has worked as research climatologist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands), at the Laboratoire de Physique des Océans (University of Brest, France) and at the Joint Research Centre (European Commission, Italy) focusing on modeling climate extremes and relative impacts. Today he is contracted as researcher at the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra, Rome, Italy).

1. Climate extremes and their implications for impact modeling: A short introduction

Jana Sillmann and Sebastian Sippel

2. Climate scenarios and their relevance and implications for impact studies

Claudia Tebaldi and Brian O'Neill

3. Changes in climate extremes in observations and climate model simulations. From the past into the future

Markus Donat, Jana Sillmann and Erich Fischer

4. Multivariate extremes and compound events

Jakob Zscheischler, Bart van den Hurk, Philip Ward and Seth Westra

5. Bias-correction of climate model output for impact models

Alex J. Cannon, Claudio Piani and Sebastian Sippel

6. Anthropogenic changes in tropical cyclones and its impacts

Michael Wehner

7. Machine Learning Applications for Agricultural Impacts Under Extreme Events

Carlos Felipe Gaitan

8. Assessing the F rance 2016 extreme wheat production loss – evaluating our operational capacity to predict complex compound events

Marijn Van der Velde, Rémi Lecerf, Raphaël d’Andrimont and Tamara Ben-Ari

9. Probabilistic drought risk analysis for even-aged forests

Marcel Van Oijen and Miguel Angel de Zavala

10. Projecting health impacts of climate extremes: a methodological overview

Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Francesco Sera and Antonio Gasparrini

11. Climate extremes and their implications for impact modelling in transport

Maria Pregnolato, David Jaroszweski, Alistair Ford and Richard Dawson

12. Assessing Vulnerability and Risk of Climate Change

Bapon SHM Fakhruddin, Kate Boylan, Alec Wild and Rebekah Robertson

13. Data challenges limit our global understanding of humanitarian disasters triggered by climate extremes

Miguel D. Mahecha, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Jeroen Smits, Fabian Gans and Guido Kraemer

14. Adaptive capacity of coupled socio-ecological systems to absorb climate extremes

Anja Rammig, Michael Bahn, Carolina Vera, Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul, Björn Vollan, Karlheinz Erb, Richard Bardgett, Stefan Liehr, Sandra Lavorel and Kirsten Thonicke

15. Impacts of Extreme Events on Medieval Societies: Lesson from Climate History

Martin Bauch

16. Climate Extremes and Conflict Dynamics

Jürgen Scheffran

17. Avoiding impacts and impacts avoided - new frontiers in impact science for adaptation research and policy relevant assessments

Carl-Friedrich Schleussner and Benoit P. Guillod

18. Outlook: Challenges for societal resilience under climate extremesOutlook

Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, Jana Sillmann and Sebastian Sippel