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. Particular attention is paid to the statistical description of extreme events, and to hydro-meteorological extremes and related hazards and geomorphic processes, such as floods (including flash floods and urban floods), landslides, debris flows, droughts, windstorms, etc. 

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; land-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks (landscape evolution, etc.)

Professors coordinating and developing projects related to this research pathway: Francesco Marra, Giorgio Cassiani, Luca Peruzzo, Simione Bizzi, Nicola Surian, Andrea Brenna