Meteorological and climatic extremes lie at the intersection of atmospheric physics, climate and global change, hydrology, geomorphology and statistics. Combining state-of-the-art observational datasets (weather radars, satellites), climate model simulations, and advanced statistical approaches it is possible to better quantify the potential hazard posed by extreme events and to predict their future changes. 

Current research topics include: 

• Climate change impact on extreme precipitation and wind and on the related hazards (floods, flash floods, urban floods, landslides and debris flows, soil erosion, forest disturbances)
• Compound and cascading processes and the related hazards
• Identification of relations between the physics of atmospheric processes and the emerging extremes
• and-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks (landscape evolution, etc.)
• Numerical modelling of climate variability and change
• Numerical modelling of tipping points within the earth system and cascading impacts
• Drivers and impacts of atmosphere-ocean coupled modes of internal climate variability in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Professors coordinating and developing projects related to this research pathway: Katinka Bellomo-Repetto, Simone Bizzi, Giorgio Cassiani, Francesco Marra, Luca Peruzzo, Nicola Surian