Challenges and opportunities for studying impacts of climate extremes. Gabriele Messori, Professor in Meteorology

Abstract

One of the key motivations for studying climate extremes are their potentially large impacts on both natural and human systems. However, there are several challenges that hinder progress in understanding how a physical climate hazard translates to an impact. In this presentation I will outline some of these challenges, with a focus on data limitations. I will then present some recent and ongoing work from the Swedish Centre for Impacts Climate Extremes (https://www.climes.se/) looking to overcome such challenges and enable continued progress on this topic.

Short bio Gabriele Messori

I am a Professor in meteorology at the Department of Earth Sciences, and the Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science at Uppsala University. I graduated in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, and then obtained a Ph. D. in Atmospheric Physics at the same institution. Since then, I have worked at Stockholm University, the U.K. Met Office and have been a visiting researcher at CNRS. I am currently Professor of Meteorology at Uppsala University.

My research spans a broad range of topics related to climate extremes, from their dynamics and predictability to their socio-economic and environmental impacts.