Mapping of climate to flood extremes
Objectives
In the Clim2FlEx project we plan to better understand how floods of different kind and their impacts on the landscape are related to climate extremes (of precipitation and temperature) and how these extremes are related to large scale predictors (e.g. climate oscillations, teleconnections). Through a novel integrated modeling chain, we aim at identifying the climate extreme indices that better relate to river floods, the large-scale climate phenomena controlling their dynamics, their expected modifications due to climate change and the associated uncertainties.
Three research questions will be at the core of Clim2FlEx:
- What are the large scale predictors of climate extremes that are relevant to river floods and their change?
- What is the role of spatio-temporal scales when mapping climate to flood extremes?
- How are climate extremes and river floods of different types related to each other?
Project participants
The research project 2022AX3882 – Clim2FlEx – “Mapping of climate to flood extremes” is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) as a Project of Significant National Interest (PRIN).
The investigators are:
- Alberto VIGLIONE – Politecnico di Torino
- Susanna CORTI – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna
- Enrico ARNONE – Università degli Studi di Torino
News
- 19 – 20 June 2025 – Clim2FlEx at EGU Leonardo in Bologna
- 27 Apr – 2 May 2025 – Clim2FlEx at EGU in Vienna
- 3 – 4 Apr 2025 – Internal meeting (minutes here)
- 17 Mar 2025 – Technical meeting between UniTO and PoliTO (minutes here)
- 18 Oct 2024 – Internal meeting (minutes here)
- 4 Oct 2024 – Technical meeting between UniTO and PoliTO (minutes here)
- 2 Aug 2024 – Vikas Kumar starts a research grant with Clim2FlEx at Università degli Studi di Torino
- 24 – 26 June 2024 – Clim2FlEx at Hydrology Days in Udine
- 19 June 2024 – Internal meeting (minutes here)
- 10 June 2024 – Ilaria Tessari starts a research grant with Clim2FlEx at CNR in Bologna
- 16 Apr 2024 – Anna Basso starts a research grant with Clim2FlEx at Politecnico di Torino
- 14 – 19 Apr 2024 – Clim2FlEx at EGU in Vienna
- 15 Mar 2024 – Internal meeting (minutes here)
- 13 Dec 2023 – Internal project kickoff meeting (minutes here)
- Oct – Dec 2023 – Calls for Post-Doctoral Researchers
Outreach
During the EGU Leonardo Conference 2025 in Bologna:
- Alberto Viglione gave an invited lecture From Climate Shifts to Flood Changes at Local and Regional Scales;
- Anna Basso and Luca Lombardo held a poster session (click here to see the poster).
The project was presented during the EGU25 General Assembly:
- poster session held by Ilaria Tessari, Vikas Kumar and Luca Lombardo: (click here to see the posters)
- Tessari, I., Giuntoli, I., and Corti, S.: Weather Regimes and Extreme Precipitation in the Great Alpine Region, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-4110, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-4110, 2025. (link here)
- Kushwaha, V. K., Lombardo, L., Basso, A., Viglione, A., and Arnone, E.: Elevation dependent effects of precipitation on river discharge at different spatio-temporal scales, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-973, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-973, 2025. (link here)
- Basso, A., Lombardo, L., and Viglione, A.: A distributed rainfall-runoff model to explore the connection between floods and climate extremes in the European Alps, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-15233, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15233, 2025. (link here)
At the Hydrology Days 2024 organised by the IHS in Udine, Luca Lombardo and Anna Basso held a poster session (click here to see the poster).
The project was presented during the EGU24 General Assembly:
- poster session held by Luca Lombardo (click here to see the poster):
- European Alps, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-6458, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6458, 2024. (link here)
- PICO presentation given by Alberto Viglione:
- Viglione, A., Arnone, E., Corti, S., Ferguglia, O., Giuntoli, I., von Hardenberg, J., Lombardo, L., Mazzoglio, P., and Palazzi, E.: Mapping of climate to flood extremes in the European Alps: a multidisciplinary approach, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-4014, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4014, 2024. (link here)
- look also to the oral presentation given by Ignazio Giuntoli and Susanna Corti:
- Giuntoli, I. and Corti, S.: Year-round Mediterranean Weather Regimes for exploring the occurrence of extreme precipitations, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17290, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17290, 2024. (link here)