CLIMATE EXTREMES
EXTREME WEATHER
“INVALUABLE KNOWLEDGE TO HELP PREPARE FOR A WORLD WITH MORE EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS”
Why are heatwaves becoming hotter and more frequent? What’s driving the growing intensity of wildfires, floods, and storms around the world?
Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather explores these questions, presenting expert perspectives and ongoing scientific research on how a warming planet is disrupting weather patterns, and fueling more frequent and intense extreme events, from prolonged droughts to larger floods.
In Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather, global leading scientists explain the physical mechanisms behind these events, including rising temperatures and atmospheric moisture levels.
Featuring insights of pioneering scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, ETH Zürich and the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR), Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather lays out the science behind today’s evolving extreme weather phenomena, helping viewers understand why such events are rapidly becoming more common around the world.
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CLIMATE EXTREMES
AT THE ABYSS ?
“A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLORATION
INTO PLANETARY TIPPING POINTS
AND NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS”
ARE WE AT RISK OF CROSSING A PLANETARY TIPPING POINT?
Are we at risk of pushing the planet on a trajectory that would unstoppably drift away from a state that can support human life as we know it?
Climate Extremes delves into these pressing questions, presenting the scientific facts behind the Earth’s changing climate and the phenomena that could push us toward irreversible changes.
Featuring insights from climate scientists from leading institutions, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, European Center for Atmospheric Research, the film explores critical climate phenomena that influence the non-linearity of climate change such as melting ice sheets, ocean currents and feedback loops of the Earth system.
Through expert-driven discussions, Climate Extremes lays out the complex dynamics of planetary boundaries and tipping points, providing viewers with a deeper understanding of the forces shaping our climate.
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In Climate Extremes documentary series we feature world-renowned scientists and climate experts at the forefront of research on Earth's changing systems. Their expertise span a range of critical fields, from climate modeling and earth systems analysis to planetary boundaries. These experts bring decades of experience and groundbreaking discoveries to help us understand the complex mechanisms driving climate change and its tipping points.
Levke Caesar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research
A researcher on ocean circulation, Levke Caesar focuses on how shifts in ocean currents, particularly the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), influence global climate patterns.
Featured in: Climate Extremes
Nico Wunderling
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research
A climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Nico Wunderling is known for his work on tipping points in the climate system and the role of feedback loops in driving extreme global changes.
Featured in: Climate Extremes
Jonathan Donges
FutureLab Leader, Working Group Leader
Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research
Jonathan Donges is a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, exploring how complex network theory can help understand the interconnectedness of Earth systems and climate stability.
Featured in: Climate Extremes
Sina Loriani
Researcher, Earth System Analysis
Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research
A climate scientist specializing in computational modeling, Sina Loriani uses simulations to investigate tipping points and the dynamics of large-scale environmental changes.
Featured in: Climate Extremes
Reto Knutti
Chair, Centre for Climate Systems Modelling, Professor, Department of Environmental Systems Science
ETH Zürich
Knutti’s research topics include long term projections, scenarios, climate target, uncertainties in projections, climate model evaluation, model weighting, natural climate variability, attribution of observed changes to human activities, feedbacks, climate sensitivity, extreme weather events and statistical learning. He also explores climate policy, economics, science communication, and sustainability, bridging the gap between research and societal action.
Featured in: Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather
Erich Fischer
Professor
The Department of Environmental Systems Science
ETH Zürich
Identified as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, Fischer’s research interests include climate and weather extremes, heavy precipitation events under climate change, heatwaves and heat stress impacts on human health, climate variability, climate projections and quantification of uncertainties, global and regional climate modelling and climate response to volcanic eruptions.
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