Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and droughts often result from a combination of interacting
physical processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The combination of processes (…

Under continued global warming, extreme events such as heat waves will continue to rise in
frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial extent over the next decades ( 1 – 4 ). Younger …

Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties,
and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude, …

Every year, millions of people around the world are being displaced from their homes due to
climate-related disasters. River flooding is responsible for a large part of this displacement. …

… Bresch executed this work in his function as a lecturer at ETH Zurich, where he now became
… And we can thus state that this past commercial affiliation does not alter David N. Bresch's …

Severe wind storms are one of the major natural hazards in the extratropics and inflict
substantial economic damages and even casualties. Insured storm-related losses depend on (i) …

The extent and impact of climate‐related extreme events depend on the underlying meteorological,
hydrological, or climatological drivers as well as on human factors such as land use …

Tropical cyclone (TC) impacts are expected to worsen under continued global warming and
socio-economic development. Here we combine TC simulations with an impact model to …

Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to
human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean …

The need for assessing the risk of extreme weather events is ever increasing. In addition to
quantification of risk today, the role of aggravating factors such as high population growth …