Decision-makers are increasingly required to consider extreme weather events as part of evaluating, disclosing, and responding to complex climate risks. Interdisciplinary approaches are required to properly understand these complex risks and to inform the best responses, including mitigation and adaptation approaches. In this session we examine how interdisciplinary teams across academic, industry, and government sectors are working to understand extreme weather events and their changes in a warming climate. Event types can include but are not limited to temperature, precipitation, wind, and compound extremes, and their impacts on people, the built environment, or the natural world. A specific focus will be on collaborative efforts to find and solve shared challenges across disciplines.

Topics of interest include

- physical climate science required for decision making
- early warning systems and their use in real-world scenarios
- risk management in the financial and insurance sectors
- impact-based understanding of extreme weather events
- assessment of varying hazard, exposure, and/or vulnerability
- storyline approaches to risk understanding.