Projektnummer

0054750

Zusammenfassung

Due to climate change and financial crisis, extreme events have received much attention by the public in the last years. However, the prediction of extremes, as storms, floods, or stock market extreme events, is still a highly challenging or even questionable task. For instance, it is still rather uncertain whether the climate change will indeed cause more extreme events in the future. The predictability of extremes and related uncertainties in a changing environment are hot topics in research in different scientific fields, but the studies of extremes has been focused mainly on subjec...