Working Group on Compound Events and Impacts
Our objective is to facilitate the development of an international, transdisciplinary network of researchers interested in compound events and their impacts. Our activities include webinars, social gatherings, and newsletters, in collaboration with other Risk KAN WGs and with the CompoundEvents.org initiative. Please join our mailing list, follow us on Twitter – @Compound_Event and Bluesky – @compoundnet.bsky.social, or attend an upcoming virtual or in-person event! You can also follow Risk KAN on LinkedIn.
News and Upcoming Events
If you know of an upcoming event, newly published paper, or notable recent example of a compound event, please use this form to submit it for inclusion here. These news items may be your own, or those you come across which have previously not been featured.
Next Webinar: Increasingly distinct hot and humid heat in a warming world – Ethan Coffel (Syracuse Univ.) Fri Apr 26, 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST/10:00 EDT) – Zoom link
| Conferences, Workshops, and other Webinars | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| EGU 2024 | Apr 14-19, 2024 | Vienna, Austria | Sessions of particular interest: CL2.3, GM4.2, HS2.4.3, HS3.2, HS7.8, ITS2.3/CL0.1.1, ITS4.8/CL0.1.16, NH9.1, NH9.2, NH9.10, NH9.15, NH10.1, NH10.6, NH11.2, OS1.10 |
| 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World: Addressing Compound and Multi-Hazard Risk | Jun 12-13, 2024 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Conference webpage link |
| Understanding Risk Global Forum | Jun 16-21, 2024 | Himeji, Japan | Forum webpage link |
| Interdisciplinary School on Impacts of Climate Extremes | Jun 17-20, 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden | Webpage link |
| Extreme Heat Workshop: Emerging Risks from Concurrent, Compounding and Record-breaking Extreme Heat across Sectors | Jul 10-12, 2024 | New York, USA | Webpage link |
Past Webinars
YouTube Channel with all recordings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpQW6FRcytGlIcN5Xy7HaA
Links to specific webinars can be found in the table below
| 2024/02/29 | Avantika Gori | "Investigating the role of climate change and development on hurricane compound hazard across spatial scales" |
| 2023/11/02 | Charuni Pathmeswaran | "Double Trouble: Exploring potential links between co-occurring terrestrial and marine heatwaves in Australia" |
| Nina Ridder | "Innovating Insurance: Towards the Implementation of Compound Events to Natural Peril Pricing" | |
| 2023/09/12 | Dirk Eilander | "Combining statistical, hydrodynamic and impact modelling for compound flood analysis" |
| Cathryn Birch | "Humid heat extremes over Africa" | |
| 2023/07/20 | Andrew Kruczkiewicz | "Compound extremes in humanitarian contexts: Understanding, managing and preparing for current and future events" |
| 2023/04/18 | Virginia Murray | ”UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles and their use in documenting hazards” |
| 2023/03/01 | Efi Rousi | "European summer extremes and links to atmospheric circulation in a changing climate" |
| 2022/11/03 | Kelly Hereid | "Climate risk and adaptation in the built environment" |
| Katharine Mach | "Advancing complex systems approaches toward equity, actionable knowledge, and principles for governance" | |
| 2022/10/19 | Ilona Otto & Cornelia Auer | "Cascading climate change impacts and social tipping dynamics: examples from the CASCADES Project" |
| 2022/09/13 | Philip Ward | "MYRIAD-EU: A pilot project for multi-hazard, multi-sector, and systemic risk management" |
| 2022/06/30 | Anaïs Couasnon | "Addressing challenges in multi-hazard decision-making with modeling and risk-simulation games" |
| Greg Yetman | "Hazard event interactions: Data for planning and select examples" | |
| 2022/06/06 | Beth Tellman | "Understanding flood risk from space: Opportunities to adapt to changing risk and catalyze climate justice" |
| 2022/04/05 | Maurizio Mazzoleni | "Exploring the human influence on the impacts of consecutive drought and flood events: A modeling approach" |
| Antonia Sebastian | "Attributing flood hazards to (anthropogenic) environmental change" | |
| 2021/12/09 | James Doss-Gollin | "Extreme impacts don't require extreme weather: Lessons from the February 2021 Texas blackouts" |
| Davide Faranda | "Cold and snowy spells over Europe in the context of anthropogenic climate change" | |
| 2021/10/20 | Suzana Camargo | "Subseasonal tropical cyclone forecasts: Recent results and compound events" |
| Tom Matthews | "Double trouble from the tropical cyclone - extreme heat compound hazard?" | |
| 2021/08/19 | Ankit Agrawal | "Multi-scale approaches in forecasting extreme floods and their global connections" |
| Manuela Brunner | "Spatially compounding floods in the US: where, why, and how often do they happen?" | |
| 2021/06/10 | Lee Chapman | "Forget climate resilience, what about weather resilience?" |
| Alexander Fekete | "The Risk KAN critical-infrastructure working group" | |
| Mari Tye | "Understanding infrastructure fragility to future weather and climate extremes" | |
| 2021/04/06 | Brian Golding | "Complex warnings: Making warnings work for multi-hazards and diverse impacts" |
| Bruno Merz & Massimiliano Pittore | "Multi-hazard impact forecasting, status and perspectives" | |
| 2021/02/25 | Jordan Christian | "Flash drought climatology: A local to global analysis" |
| Deepti Singh | "Influence of climate variability and change on spatially concurrent droughts" | |
| 2020/11/24 | Noah Diffenbaugh | "Multidimensional risk in a nonstationary climate: changes in joint probability of extreme conditions in space and time" |
| Lauren Rickards | "Unpacking the 'social dimensions' of compound and cascading climate change impacts" | |
| 2020/10/15 | Emanuele Bevacqua | "More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change at most locations worldwide" |
| Danielle Touma | "Competing anthropogenic effects cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather conditions" | |
| 2020/08/25 | Daniela Domeisen | "Remote forcing of extreme events" |
| Vimal Mishra | "Hot and dry extremes during the South Asian Summer Monsoon" | |
| 2020/07/29 | Julio Herrera Estrada | "Spatially compounded droughts at continental scales" |
| Miguel Mahecha | "Understanding the imprint of compound events on the terrestrial ecosystems" | |
| 2020/06/30 | Michela De Dominicis | "Future interactions between sea-level rise, tides, and storm surges in the world's largest urban area" |
| Michael Puma | "Assessing COVID-19 impacts on global food systems" | |
| 2020/06/04 | EGU Edition | |
| 2020/05/20 | Gabriele Messori | "Dynamical coupling indicators for the study of compound extreme events" |
| Lisa Thalheimer | "Compound risks from extreme weather and forced migration during COVID-19" | |
| 2020/04/16 | Dan Cooley | "Compound events from a statistics perspective: Multivariate extremes" |
| Marleen de Ruiter | "Consecutive disasters and the asynergies of disaster risk reduction measures" |