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280370 VO An Introduction to Complex Climate Risks (2026S)

2.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 28 - Erdwissenschaften, Meteorologie-Geophysik und Astronomie
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Sprache: Englisch

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Wednesday 04.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday 11.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday 18.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday 25.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

!! Note Date on Wed 15.04. shifted to Mon 01.06. 16:30 - 18:00!!

Monday 11.05.16:30 - 18:00; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II <- NOTE: Class on Monday!

Wednesday 20.05.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday 27.05.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

Monday 01.06.16:30 - 18:00; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II <- NOTE: Class on Monday!
Wednesday 03.06.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

Exam Dates:
Wednesday 10.06.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday 17.06.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

  • Montag 02.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 04.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 09.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 11.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 16.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 18.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 23.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 25.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 13.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 15.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 20.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 22.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 27.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 29.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 04.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 06.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 11.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 13.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 18.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 20.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 27.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 01.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 03.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 08.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 15.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 22.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Mittwoch 24.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
  • Montag 29.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Extreme climate and weather events can lead to cascading failures that can spread within and across socio-environmental systems and sectors, often disproportionally affecting underserved communities. Climate change is projected to lead to more frequent and more severe extreme weather events amplifying the likelihood of Complex Climate Risks through multivariate, concurrent and sequential climate extremes affecting societal systems (e.g., food, health, supply chains, finance) and critical infrastructure (e.g., water, energy, communication, transportation) in complicated ways that are challenging to anticipate and prepare for. Understanding and mitigating Complex Climate Risks in a changing climate in compliance with climate equity and justice requires joint efforts from a broad range of scientific communities across disciplines and temporal and spatial scales - from local to global extent, synoptic to decadal variability, and hazard characterization to detailed risk and impact assessment. In recognition that univariate risk assessments might fail to acknowledge amplified risks for societies, from inter-related hazards and affected sectors, a complex risk perspective is increasingly required in the context of understanding climate impacts, resilience and adaptation.

This course will provide an introduction to Complex Climate Risks by discussing recent frameworks developed to address them under current and future climate conditions. Several recent real-world events in which societal impacts were amplified by compounding climatic drivers and interactions with societal systems, leading to e.g. conflicts and migration, amplified mortality and failure of critical infrastructures are reviewed. Examples include the 2010 heatwave which caused increased mortality and harvest failures and their connection to the Arab Spring uprising a year later, the links of a year-long with the Syrian Civil and the mass migration that followed in 2015, the 2021 February Texas cold-spell that left millions without electricity and water for days under severe cold conditions in particular in poorer neighbourhoods, and the amplified impacts of Weather Extremes during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. This course will provide the students with a thorough understanding of Complex Climate Risks, the typology of different compounding hazards and statistical approaches bridging the physical and societal spheres for a more integral climate risk assessment. Guided by recent literature quantitative and qualitative frameworks that aim at assessing current and future climate risks to turn them into actionable information for hazard prevention and climate adaptation are discussed. The course will end with a discussion about whether the challenges to managing complex climate risk relate to challenges in assessing them, or whether existing forms of management and governance need to be reconsidered.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Student Presentations at the End of the Course period

Dates:
Wednesday10.06.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday17.06.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Group presentation on a topic around Complex Climate Risks
Topics will be assigned within the first three weeks of the course:

Wednesday04.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday11.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
Wednesday18.03.17:00 - 18:30; Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

Prüfungsstoff

At the beginning of the course, student group projects are assigned which are presented and discussed in the final weeks of the course.

Literatur

Extreme Weather in a changing Climate
-IPCC Special Report on Extremes (SPM)
-IPCC Interactive Atlas (interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch)
-Increasing trends in regional heatwaves (Kirkpatrick & Lewis 2020)
-Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes (Fowler et al. 2021)
-Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate (Robinson et al. 2021)

Tipping Elements
-Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis (SPM)
-Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system (Lenton et al. 2008)

Compound Extremes
-A typology of compound weather and climate events, (Zscheischler et al. 2020)
-Future Risks from Compound Extremes (Zscheischler et al. 2018)
- Understanding and managing connected extreme events, (Raymond et al. 2020)
- Amplified risk of spatially compounding droughts during co-occurrences of modes of natural ocean variability, (Singh et al., 2021)
- Multidimensional risk in a nonstationary climate: Joint probability of increasingly severe warm and dry conditions, (Sarhadi et al 2021)
-An emerging tropical cyclone–deadly heat compound hazard (Matthews et al. 2019)
-National Climate Assessment: Chapter on Compound Extremes)

Societal Impacts
-IPCC AR6 WG3: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (SPM)
-Assessing human habitability and migration, (Horton et al. 2021)

Multi-Hazards and Complex Climate Risks
-A framework for complex climate change risk assessment, (Simpson et al.2021)
-Climate Endgame: Exploring Catastrophic Climate Change Scenarios (Kemp et al. 2022)
-A review of quantification methodologies for multi-hazard interrelationships (Tilloy et al. 2020)

Systemic Risks
-Briefing note on Systemic (Risk-KAN, UNDRR, GRAF, ISC), Sillmann et al. 2021
-Interactions between two existential threats: COVID-19 and climate change (Ebi et al. 2021)
-Compound risks and complex emergencies require new approaches to preparedness (Kruczkiewicz et al. 2021)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 27.07.2026 09:27