In the face of weather events like El Niño or the Indian Monsoon, research into remote drivers of weather extremes is particularly relevant. The GOTHAM Summer School trains young scientists on interdisciplinary scientific topics and provides them with methodological tools necessary for investigating teleconnections and their impacts on extreme weather events. Teleconnections are defined by the American Meteorological Society as “a linkage between weather changes occurring in widely separated regions of the globe”.
GOTHAM is a new project involving CPDN (ClimatePrediction.net), a computing model predicting climate and global warming, that aims to identify the relative impact of different teleconnections on extreme weather events. Speakers include Ted Shepherd from the University of Reading, Antje Weisheimer and colleagues from the University of Oxford, UK, Bo Wu and Tianjun Zhou from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in China, Krishnan Raghavan and Ramesh Vellore from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, plus from PIK Stefan Rahmstorf, Dim Coumou, Reik Donner, Elena Surovyatkina, and others.
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