The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2026 is one of the largest international conferences in the geosciences, bringing together thousands of researchers from across the world to present and discuss […]
The upcoming EMS Annual Meeting 2026 will take place in Utrecht, bringing together researchers and practitioners from across the meteorological and climate science communities. A session titled “Attribution of Extreme […]
European Horizon Projects MYRIAD-EU and XAIDA Final Event took place on 17–18 December 2025 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (hybrid). The public session on 17 December afternoon welcomed both projects, journalists, and […]
Each year, AGU comes up with a unique theme for the Annual Meeting. It starts as a brainstorm among interested parties, and then our design team takes themes and common […]
Join the official open-source release of FloodAdapt, a decision-support tool designed to accelerate flood adaptation planning. FloodAdapt combines rapid, physics-based compound flood modeling with detailed impact assessments in a user-friendly […]
EuroGEO is the regional coordination mechanism that aims to consolidate and coordinate activities throughout Europe that contribute to GEO (Group on Earth Observations) initiatives. Since EuroGEO’s inception, the European landscape […]
The RMetS Annual Weather and Climate Conference scheduled for 2 – 4 July 2025 at the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), provided a platform for scientists and operational meteorologists working in academia, […]
Held every three years, ESA’s Living Planet Symposia are among the world’s premier events on Earth observation. With the climate crisis intensifying, the Living Planet Symposium 2025 (LPS25) emphasised transitioning […]
ECMWF holded its 8th General Assembly of the Copernicus Climate Change Service between 2-4 June in Valencia, Spain. General Assembly was a possibility to connect with your fellow C3S service […]
The inaugural GEO Global Forum in 2025 was a premier global event to inspire all elements of our society – from Ministers and global leaders to citizens – to harness […]
The General Assembly 2025 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) was held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria and online, from 27 April–2 May 2025. The assembly was open […]
Registrations are now open for the 4th Copernicus Emergency Management Service Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting. The event will be hosted online on 02 and 03 April 2025, from 13:00 to 16:30 UTC during both days of the […]
We are excited to invite you to register for the 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 at the 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 on 𝟭𝟭 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. This one-day […]
Each year, AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 25,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research and connect with friends and colleagues. Scientists, educators, […]
Eurac Research have hosted the INQUIMUS 2024 on Climate and Disaster Risk storylines – an approach to embrace complexity of risks and heterogeneity of evidence in risk science, risk management and risk […]
COMPASS partners, namely the University of Szczecin (US) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) organised a Workshop on “Compound extremes attribution of climate change” in Poland. The […]
Last June, the COMPASS team participated to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) 7th General assembly in Brussels. This gathering brought together climate experts, researchers, data users and policy makers […]
From 12-13 June 2024, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World: Addressing Compound and Multi-Hazard Risk will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The […]
Join us for a 2-day Workshop on “Data-driven hydrology and machine learning algorithms for water management and risk assessment” organized by the STARS4Water and DRHYM (data-driven hybrid hydrological models) projects. […]
Join us for a 2-day Workshop on “Quantifying the Impacts of Climate Change on Socioeconomic Development” organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and funded by BMBF […]
A new COMPASS open-source software framework — CLIMB: Framework for CLIMate data bias-adjustment and downscaling — has been published in SoftwareX. The tool provides a fully automated pipeline for processing
The COMPASS project recently released a report on “Storylines connecting hazard, exposure, vulnerability and impacts to decision-making for Phase I“. This collection of case study stories presents accessible, non-technical narratives
Extreme climate event attribution allows us to assess the relative contribution of human carbon emissions and resulting global climate change to the probability and intensity of climate extremes such as
The COMPASS project recently released a “Counterfactual dataset of tropical cyclone-affected areas“. The dataset contains high resolution simulations of factual and counterfactual maximum (across time of the event) flood depth
A new research position focusing on attribution storylines (non-impact) is now open at the University of Reading, offered within the C3S attribution activity. This role provides an opportunity to contribute
The COMPASS project’s recent scientific publication, “Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950”, was presented at two high-level expert meetings in October and November
From 13 to 14 October 2025, the COMPASS project partners gathered in the city of Chania, Crete, for the 3rd General Assembly. The two-day meeting, hosted by SEVEN, provided an
The journal Environmetrics has launched a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue titled “Extreme Processes and Their Impact on Hazards and Risks.” This special issue aims to bring
We are excited to share the third COMPASS Newsletter, designed to update you on the progress and results of our project activities, along with other significant developments in the field
The COMPASS project recently released a report on “Hazard and Impact Synthesis and Attribution for Phase I use case“. This document provides an in-depth summary of the implementation, strengths, and
The COMPASS project recently released a “Dataset on weather types and largescale climate drivers“. This dataset facilitates the analysis of relationships between UK weather types and large-scale drivers relevant to
The COMPASS project recently released a “Report on understanding of weather types and large-scale climate drivers“. This report presents a novel framework (outlined in Figure 1) to identify, assess and
A new study, supported by the COMPASS project and published in Science Advances, reveals that adaptation measures have significantly reduced flood-related economic losses and fatalities across Europe over the past
The COMPASS project, in collaboration with the WorldPop project, has successfully developed and provided a new population dataset to support Earth system modeling for CMIP7 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase
The European Commission has an open call on “The attribution to climate change, and improved forecasting of extreme and slow-onset climate- and weather-related events and their impacts” [HORIZON-CL5-2025-06-D1-04]. The deadline
The COMPASS project recently released a “Report on integration of datasets and models“. This report presents a modular and scalable workflow framework, developed within the COMPASS project, designed to support
We are excited to share the second COMPASS Newsletter, designed to update you on the progress and results of our project activities, along with other significant developments in the field
Extreme event attribution (EEA) studies have become a critical tool for understanding how climate change influences the likelihood and severity of extreme weather events. However, most studies to date have
World Weather Attribution (WWA)highlighted that “of a total of seven WWA studies that produced inconclusive results, four focused on weather events in Africa”, while “investment in climate science and weather
The COMPASS project recently released a gridded dataset of global exposure (population, gross domestic product and net fixed asset value) at a spatial resolution of 30 arc seconds (≈0.93 km
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COMPASS aims to develop a harmonised, yet flexible, methodological framework for climate and impact attribution of various complex extremes that includes compound, sequences and cascading hazard events
The COMPASS project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101135481
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