Centre of excellence on Impacts of Climate Extremes under global change (ICE)

Climate extremes have multifarious socio-economic impacts. Gaining a detailed understanding of these is essential for building a resilient society, yet is not easily realized.

Limitations in impact databases and the complex socio-physical feedbacks underlying the genesis of impacts pose a formidable challenge to current analysis techniques.The Centre of excellence on Impacts of Climate Extremes under global change (ICE) commits to overcoming this challenge.

ICE will build a new interdisciplinary research field bridging the physical, medical, social and engineering sciences, provide training opportunities and support societal response to climate extremes.

ICE focuses on three overarching themes over a 5-year period: improving databases of impacts of climate extremes; using these to better understand the physical and societal interplays determining the impacts of an extreme; and building policy-actionable scenarios of impacts of future extremes.ICE promotes excellence in science by seamlessly combining interdisciplinary methodological and conceptual inno­vations and coordinating an international exchange program.

These will boost Sweden’s visibility and competitiveness in the study of impacts of climate extremes. Excellence in training is pursued by a synergistic offer of master´s courses and a doctoral graduate school.

Excellence in supporting societal response is promoted through policy-actionable research outputs developed together with public and industry stakeholders.