High-Impacts Climate Event

Recently, extreme weather/climate events such as heatwave, cold surge, drought, flood, typhoon, and other extreme events occur more frequently over the globe. It is a challenging question of how much climate changes contribute to the frequent occurrence of extreme events these days. Since extreme climate events have a very strong social and economic impact, it is very important to understand the underlying mechanism and to secure predictability based on physical understanding. Climate System Laboratory (CSL) investigates mechanisms of the various extreme climate events and looks for precursors, which will be used for predicting the events. In addition, we examine future changes in extreme events, with a special interest in relative contributions of the climate changes and natural long-term climate variability.