ClimaMeter | Understanding Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate

As the world faces the growing challenges of climate change, an international team of researchers has launched a cutting-edge platform to directly tackle one of the most pressing questions: to what extent does climate change alter extreme weather events?

In this context, the team of researchers at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), in collaboration with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Swedish University of Uppsala and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste focused on some extreme events that occurred this summer such as the extratropical storm Poly that hit central Europe, the exceptional heatwave Cerberus that hit the central Mediterranean and the intense rainfall at the end of August on Mediterranean islands and in northern Italy.