Extreme weather events in alpine regions

ACRP project HighResMountains

Funding: ACRP Project, Climate and Energy Fund
Title: Mountain weather in high-resolution climate data: How will the new generation of ÖKS benefit from new emerging datasets?
Keywords: Mountains, high-resolution data, Alps, extreme events
Project lead: University of Innsbruck, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN)
Contact: Nikolina Ban (nikolina.ban@uibk.ac.at), Mathias Rotach (mathias.rotach@uibk.ac.at)
Project partners: University of Graz, GeoSphere Austria

Objective

HighResMountains brings together various emerging and high-resolution climate data with the overall goal of understanding extreme events over the complex Alpine region and their changes with further atmospheric warming.