EDIPI has recruited a cohort of 14 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) enrolled in Ph. D. programmes and trained them to become Weather Extreme Experts.
ESRs have since then taken part in a large number of training activities, both at their home institutions and beyond. Specifically, EDIPI has organised a number of network-wide trainings that have brought all ESRs together in multiple occasions: in Uppsala, Paris, Brussels, Karlsruhe, Nicosia and at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna. Each ESR has further conducted two long working visits (secondments), lasting 2 to 3 months, to another institution within the EDIPI project. This has included visits to private companies, research centres and universities.
The main scientific results of the EDIPI project have covered the dynamics, predictability and impacts of a wide number of different climate extremes affecting Europe. Many of these results have been published in the peer-reviewed literature, while others are at an earlier stage of development. Examples of published results include an analysis of the meteorological predictability of European heatwaves, which looks at how rapidly the atmospheric flow changes over time in the build-up of a heatwave; a study of how we can attribute cyclones affecting Europe to anthropogenic climate change; an analysis of local and remote drivers of European summertime heatwaves; a comparison of meteorologically-derived windstorm impacts to those from a commercial windstorm model; an attribution of recent heat-related mortality in Europe due to climate change; an analysis historical and future changes in the land area affected by co-occurring hot, wet, and dry extremes; and a quantification of how seasonal and sub-seasonal weather extremes affect crop yields across major agricultural regions in Europe.
EDIPI has disseminated these results to the scientific community and the general public through multiple channels. These include social media such as LinkedIn, popular science articles authored by the ESRs, in-person presentations in schools, museums and libraries, and by producing pedagogical material aimed at school students. Dissemination to the private sector has occurred during the ESR secondments and targeted presentations, including during EDIPI training events. Public agencies and policy-makers, at both local and national level, have also been engaged by EDIPI researchers.
The exploitation of results has focussed on direct non-commercial exploitation by EDIPI consortium members, indirect non-commercial exploitation by external actors and commercial exploitation. Examples include the integration of EDIPI results on extreme event attribution to climate change in the development of a rapid attribution initiative, ongoing discussions with an operational forecasting centre on the relevance of EDIPI results for their forecasting products and the use of EDIPI results for the evaluation of a commercial windstorm model.
