CU Extreme Wx Blog

by Marie DeNoia Aronsohn, October 3, 2017 Historically, tropical cyclones (also known as hurricanes) have rarely hit Mumbai, India. But how will future storms impact this coastal city on the Arabian Sea? That’s the focus of a leading-edge study underway by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate. “While several cyclones did […]

Many Columbia University scientists and experts have published articles and have been quoted in numerous media reports on Hurricane Harvey and its disastrous impacts in Texas. We have put together a list of some of these articles and reports, and will be updating the list as more appear and we become aware of them. Written: […]

http://climateandlife.columbia.edu/2017/04/27/the-near-term-impacts-of-climate-change-on-investors/ On May 2, 2017, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School will co-host an invite-only conference on “The Near-term Impacts of Climate Change on Investors” in midtown Manhattan Peter de Menocal, director of Lamont-Doherty’s Center for Climate and Life and a co-organizer of the event, said the purpose of the conference […]

London, 20 March 2017 — Risk to U.S. property from thunderstorms is as high as from hurricanes, according to new research published by Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), the global advisory, broking and solutions company. A report compiled with Columbia University, a member of the Willis Research Network (WRN), […]

In February, after torrential rains led to partial failure of a spillway on Northern California’s Oroville Dam, forcing evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream, Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled “What California’s Dam Crisis Says About the Changing Climate.” My colleague, Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia […]

On Thursday March 2nd 2017 the Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate hosted Dr. Robert Muir-Wood, the head of research at Risk Management Solutions (RMS) and a world-leading “catastrophe scientist” who presented “The Cure for Catastrophe – how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters,” based on his book by the same title. Opening with a […]

The Initiative held two events this spring which have been written up in documents now available online. Our Severe Convection and Climate Workshop, held on March 9-10, 2016, is described in detail in a report lead-authored by John Allen (formerly of IRI, now an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University) for the Bulletin of the American […]