Institute of Advanced Studies in Climate Extremes and Risk Management
Nanjing, China, 21 October - 1 November 2019
For successful and efficient conduct of the summer school, all participants are invited to review and study the preparation material before the Summer School.
The Summer School programme can be downloaded here.
Software requirements
R software. Packages to install: copula, CDVineCopulaConditional
Course material / Presentations
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Week 1 |
Day 1 (Oct 21) |
Day 2 (Oct 22) |
Day 3 (Oct 23) |
Day 4 (Oct 24) |
Day 5 (Oct 25) |
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Session 1 |
Welcome and Introduction |
Compound Event I |
Heatwaves - From hazard to impact |
Compound Event II |
Game Play |
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Session 2 |
Heatwaves - Definition, metrics and drivers |
Heatwaves - Past, present, future |
Student posters discussion |
Student posters discussion |
Progress report by students |
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Session 3 |
Project assignment and project meeting* |
Project work, meet the lecturers |
Project work, meet the lecturers |
Risk framework: hazard, exposure and vulnerability |
Science-policy for climate and DRR discourses |
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Session 4 |
Project work |
Project work |
Project work |
Project work |
Project work |
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Week 2 |
Day 6 (Oct 28) |
Day 7 (Oct 29) |
Day 8 (Oct 30) |
Day 9 (Oct 31) |
Day 10 (Nov 1) |
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Session 1 |
Climate Information |
Introduction to event attribution |
Estimation of large return values |
Big data |
Causal framework and event attribution |
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Session 2 |
Extreme value theory |
Changes in extreme precipitation I |
From climate to adaptation: a few case studies |
Changes in extreme precipitation II |
Project report / planning |
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Session 3 |
Project work |
Project work |
Project work |
Project work |
Project report / planning Closing (15h00) |
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Session 4 |
Project work |
Project work |
Project work |
Preparation for project report |
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