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Risks of extreme weather events pose some of the greatest hazards to society and the environment as the climate system changes due to anthropogenic (i.e., human-caused) warming. If the severity of extreme climate events continues to increase, this will constitute one of the most stressing forms of change for society and the environment.

The Calibrated and Systematic Characterization, Attribution, and Detection of Extremes (CASCADE) project advances the Nation’s ability to identify and project climate extremes and how they are impacted by environmental drivers.

CASCADE RESEARCH AREAS

DETECTION AND DESIGNATION

Description, detection, and designation of extremes in data and models

UNDERSTANDING WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXTREMES

Understanding and simulating the physical mechanisms that drive variability and change in the spatio-temporal characteristics of extreme events.

COMPUTATION AND PREDICTION

High performance computing to detect and predict changes in weather extremes.

UNCERTAINTY OF EXTREMES

Experiments to explore how uncertainty in observations and models affect our understanding of extremes

CASCADE RESEARCH AREAS

DETECTION AND DESIGNATION

UNDERSTANDING WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXTREMES

COMPUTATION AND PREDICTION

UNCERTAINTY OF EXTREMES

PARTNERS