Invited perspectives: Towards usable compound event research
Abstract
Abstract. Supporting stakeholders with science-based decision-making to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts is a central mandate of the climate research community. In particular, mapping out scenario-dependent climate risk landscapes is one of the most pressing challenges. Increasingly, communities and regions are experiencing high-impact climate and weather extremes that arise from a complex interplay of processes and events acting across various spatial and temporal scales. To account for these emerging trends, there is a growing recognition that both climate impact and early warning research needs to incorporate risks from compound events to better inform climate adaptation and mitigation efforts. This demand for more fine-grained and applicable knowledge gives rise to new data and modeling needs, and can increase uncertainties. Consequently, new methodological approaches and effective communication strategies are required for making research usable outside scientific communities. In this perspective, we reflect on this usability challenge by discussing impact data products, early warning and modeling capabilities, and communication tools, urging climate impact scientists to increasingly incorporate usability considerations in their research to meet the pressing demand for usable compound event research.
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Authors: Kai Kornhuber, Emanuele Bevacqua, Mariana Madruga de Brito, W. Jäger, Pauline Rivoire, Cassandra D. W. Rogers, Fabiola Banfi, Fulden Batıbeniz, James Carruthers, Carlo De Michele, Silvia De Angeli, Cristina Deidda, Marleen de Ruiter, Andreas H. Fink, Henrique Moreno Dumont Goulart, Katharina Küpfer, Patrick Ludwig, Douglas Maraun, Gabriele Messori, Shruti Nath, Fiachra O’Loughlin, Joaquim Ginete Pinto, Benjamin Poschlod, Alexandre Miguel Ramos, Colin Raymond, Andreia F. S. Ribeiro, Deepti Singh, Laura Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Philip J. Ward, Christopher J. White
Institutions: Columbia University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Oxford, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Leipzig University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Wageningen University & Research, University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Uppsala University, Universität Hamburg, Politecnico di Milano, University of Lausanne, ETH Zurich, Newcastle University, Washington State University Vancouver, University College Dublin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Hamburg Institut (Germany), Stockholm University, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hamburg University of Technology, University of Graz, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, University of Strathclyde, Deltares, Bureau of Meteorology, Joint Replacement Institute