Compound events and risks
Conveners: Andrea Toreti (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy), Uwe Ulbrich (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Compound events and concurrent extremes are emerging as an effect of climate change. The same holds for recurrent events that may not be extreme individually but as a sequence trigger higher risks and increase vulnerability. All these complex events cause heavy impacts on socio-economic and financial sectors as well as on ecosystems. Understanding, modelling, predicting, and projecting such events, as well as the associated risks, are of primary importance in reducing their impacts and in enhancing resilience. This session welcomes contributions focused on all aspects of this challenging topic. Studies focused on the dynamics and the statistics of such events, analyses on sectoral and multi-sectoral risks, novel methodologies also integrating AI are all of relevance.