About the Project

The EU-funded CENÆ project will shed light on how cold spells, heavy rain and strong winds across North America and Europe interact and result in compound extremes with a larger socioeconomic impact than the sum of their individual components. Our work will be articulated along three axes. We will first identify the atmospheric precursors to the compound extremes of interest at multiple spatio-temporal scales, and use these to elucidate the physical drivers of the extremes. Next, we will leverage our understanding of these precursors to investigate the predictability of the compound extremes. Finally, we will review the above findings in the context of climate change.