PREVENT at the 3rd Training School on Compound Climate – Related Events.
Several PREVENT members participated to the 3rd Como Training School (https://damocles.compoundevents.org/new.php?id=3210) on Compound climate-related Events, which took place in Como (Italy) on the 24.09-4.10.24.
The school focused on providing a comprehensive introduction to compound events and to various statistical approaches and frameworks for their assessment, focusing on key issues like causality, network analysis, dynamics, and impacts.
G. Di Capua and T. Lam from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research led one of the groups, focusing on understanding the atmospheric drivers of compound hot and dry events in models and observations. More specifically, G. D. Capua and T. Lam were the supervisors of Project1 “Assessing causality in hot and try events” over the Mediterranean hot spot region which has experience both enhanced warming and drying with respect to other regions in the world. Under the guidance of two PREVENT participants, this project sought to explore the dynamics of compound hot and dry events through the application of advanced causal discovery methods and machine learning algorithms. The analysis was conducted using reanalysis data in conjunction with historical and future simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), enabling a nuanced understanding of these complex climatic phenomena across multiple temporal dimensions.
This school represented a great chance to both disseminate PREVENT results and to further advance the research within a new network of
collaborators. PREVENT PhD student A.Papadopoulos-Zachos also attended the school.