Mitigating the impacts of extreme weather

Extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall, storms, floods or forest fires can considerably damage roads, railways, communication systems and power lines. Now, researchers within the EU-funded RAIN project—due to be completed by 2017—are planning to analyse associated risks and to assess how climate change may alter the threats posed by extreme weather events. As part of this latter, broader scope, scientists want to improve weather warnings specifically addressed at infrastructure operators. Here, Katrin Nissen, senior scientists at the institute of meteorology of the Free University in Berlin, Germany, talks to RAIN about the challenge to improve weather warnings by learning from past events.

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