Medicane Apollo
Medicane Apollo (named by a consortium of European meteorological services) formed on October 28th in the Jonian sea, offshore Sicily, from a low pressure disturbance which was very active in the days previous the formation of the Medicane. This low pressure system was isolated near the Balearic islands around 22nd of October and then moved on the Central Mediterranean sea producing self-regenerating thunderstorms in the area of Catania on the 24th of October.
EARLY 2022 HEAT WAVES IN EUROPE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The summer of 2022 was pounded by a series of heat waves in Europe. The first, an outstanding early heat wave, took place in mid-June 2022 across Europe, mostly hitting Spain, France, but also other parts of Europe. The early character of the heat, in a crucial season for agriculture and ecosystems, is likely to have induced specific impacts on health and agriculture, which will need to be assessed. During the XAIDA Summer School in Trieste, students have studied the relation of this heatwave to climate change.
JOB OFFER: POSTDOCTORAL OPPORTUNITY AT ICTP
Join the XAIDA Team at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Institute (ICTP) in Trieste Italy as a postdoc in high resolution regional climate modelling, coupled regional earth system modelling, hydroclimate modelling and machine learning algorithm under the supervision of Dr. Erika Coppola.
WINTER DROUGHT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: WHAT DO WE KNOW?
Since October 2021 and until mid march 2022, a severe drought has gripped the Western Mediterranean area, putting harvests from rain-fed crops potentially at risk. Winter is a crucial season for water resources in this region. What is the current state of our knowledge?
SUMMER SCHOOL: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF CLIMATE EXTREMES
Located in ICTP, Trieste, Italy, the XAIDA’s Summer School took place from 20 June to 2 July 2022. This article introduces the lectures, hackathons, workshops and makes an analysis of the organisation, attendees and feedback from the participants.
JOB OFFER: 3 YEARS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Join the XAIDA Team at the Institute of Data Science of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), to work in Development of causal inference methods in the field causal Inference and machine learning under the supervision of Dr. Jakob Runge.
JOB OFFER: POST-DOCTORAL POSITION
Join the XAIDA Team at LSCE (CNRS), Paris region, to work in Attribution of Tropical Cyclones to climate Change via Statistical Learning under the supervision of Davide Faranda, Mathieu Vrac and Sebastien Fromang.
CYCLONES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT DO WE KNOW? THE CASE OF CYCLONE BATSIRAI
Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has left Madagascar after killing dozens, displacing tens of thousands and devastating the island’s agriculture, already suffering from drought hard hitting a vulnerable population, Unicef said, adding that many of the victims are probably children, who make up more than 50% of Madagascar’s population. Batsirai hit eastern Madagascar with a Category 3 strength on the evening of Saturday 5 february 2022, bringing heavy rains and winds of 165 km/h. The city of Mananjary in the east of the country “has been completely destroyed”, one of its residents said.
TORNADOES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WE KNOW
Devastating tornadoes in central U.S.A. took place on 10 and 11 December 2021, with widespread destruction of homes, infrastructures, and large parts of some midwest cities. Over a hundred people lost their lives and many more were injured. Given that we already live in a world of 1.2°C global warming, such extreme events immediately raise the question whether and to what extent climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of these devastating storms. Here we briefly summarize the current scientific knowledge on such links.
