ClimXtreme II --Module-C-Coordination
Torben Kunz
![Loss ratio [per thousand] accumulated over Germany for winter storm events from 1997-2016.](/met/ag/clidia/Projekte/ClimXtreme--Module-C-Coordination/lossratio_4web.png?html=1&locale=de&ref=148992716)
Loss ratio [per thousand] accumulated over Germany for winter storm events from 1997-2016.
Module C coordination and index clustering (COO)
ClimXtreme II is an interdisciplinary research network consisting of 17 collaborating institutions and 25 subprojects, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). ClimXtreme aims to improve the understanding of extreme weather events in Europe in the context of anthropogenic climate change.
COO coordinates ClimXtreme II in close collaboration with the coordination of Modules A, B, and D. The coordination will take care that the overall research questions of ClimXtreme II. Furthermore, COO is responsible to fulfill the general aims of Module C (impacts).
There are two overarching activity groups in ClimXtreme II which will be coordinated by COO: the "Post Event Assessment Group" (PostAG) and the "Hazard Specific Stakeholder Interaction Groups" (HaSSI group). The PostAG will act using a certain protocol and assess extreme events occurring during ClimXtreme II. The HaSSI groups ensure the interaction between stakeholders and ClimXtreme research projects.
Scientifically, COO will further extend and analyze the integrated database of indices of ClimXtreme. The database includes indices from all hazards of Module C which are wind, precipitation and temperature and drought related. Indices link meteorological parameters to impacts as storm loss, flooding from spatially small scales to large river floods, crop failure and agricultural droughts.
Analysis of the database will focus on sequences of hazards which lead to a potential increase of impacts. This will be done for different combinations of hazard types, e.g. succeeding periods with high rainfall amounts, and subsequent flooding. Those sequences can be classified as multivariate and preconditioned compound events. The integrated database enables the possibility to interrelate sector specific impacts and sequences and to analyze compound events which are explicitly defined by the combination of impact-related hazards and thresholds. The database is then used to investigate the climate change of these sequences.